I want to write a story for people where they finish it, and it sticks with them. Sylvia Day Read Quote
The ‘Blacklist’ duology is a project I am very passionate about, and when the St. Martin’s Press team approached me, I was captivated with their presentation. Sylvia Day Read Quote
There are millions of people who think that romance isn’t real writing. But the only person who can make you real, make your books real, is you. Sylvia Day Read Quote
Other genres are plot-driven, but the entire focus of a romance novel is on the characters and their arcs. Sylvia Day Read Quote
Obviously, there are those in the industry who don’t give romance novels the level of respect the sales would warrant. They’ll talk about a book that sells maybe 100,000 copies, that happens to be very literary, whereas something like ‘Crossfire’ will sell 13 million copies in a single language and hardly get any mentions at all. Sylvia Day Read Quote
Writers are not celebrities, so you don’t expect to walk down the street and hear, ‘Oh my God, there’s Sylvia Day.’ You prefer to be anonymous. Sylvia Day Read Quote
The damaged wealthy hero is actually a hugely common trope in romance, and alpha heroes are very common in romance. Sylvia Day Read Quote
I think we love the fantasy of being the one person who can really touch the person who has been untouchable for everybody else. There’s something that makes us feel very special about that; that we could be the one out of everyone who’s tried and everybody who’s wanted to reach that person – you’re the only one who could do it. Sylvia Day Read Quote
I just have to let the story go the way it needs to go and let them take the detours they want to take, and I’ll get to the end. Sylvia Day Read Quote
The publishing industry provides a viable channel which enables a wide distribution of books that we’re not seeing in any other way. Unfortunately, self-publishing doesn’t have that. Sylvia Day Read Quote
