I've also got Terry Pratchett's new book 'Raising Steam'. He's stuck in this childhood world where Peter Pan rules everything until an adult woman finally falls into Neverland. It tells that story from his perspective. It's a really beautifully written novel about Captain Hook.

The book I'm reading right now is called 'Alias Hook' by Lisa Jensen. What are you looking forward to reading this summer? I've got it ordered same as everyone else! It's called 'Heated.' My guess is that's going to skyrocket up the list. She's had a series that was really caught up by a lot of the '50 Shades of Grey' fans. Millions and millions of women fell for '50 Shades of Grey.' What should they read now? And if someone wanted to try a historical romance, I'd start with a book by Loretta Chase called 'Lord of Scoundrels.' It's just brilliant, hysterically funny, sexy dialogue. She wrote a book called 'Magic Bites,' which is the first in the series. Those have a big crossover with the male audience. I mean it goes: 'Phoebe Summerville outraged everyone by bringing a French poodle and a Hungarian lover to her father's funeral.' Lately, a lot of people like reading urban paranormals. I would go with, for example, 'It Had to Be You'. I would say they should pick up Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Which romance novels would you suggest for first-time readers? Good genre fiction has to keep that relationship interesting and exciting and suspenseful. But basically the promise of the genre is that you can have a long-term, loving, respectful, sexy relationship. She wants to smile and laugh when her does. wants to be shivering along with the heroine. It's had to be even faster in the last five years, because of the pace of electronic readers. Genre fiction has to move extremely fast.

It looks like it's going to be a scorcher. We talked the makings of gripping 'genre fiction,' '50 Shades of Grey,' and the spines that she's most looking forward to cracking open this summer. And while she writes her beloved bodice-rippers under the alias Eloisa James, the author is also an accomplished academic and thoughtful advocate of her favored form. In anticipation of a sun-soaked summer, we tracked down romance novelist and Fordham University professor Mary Bly in Italy. The time has come to stack up some paperbacks and update your Kindle.

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