Her classmates laughed, and her professor noted that while she had talent, she needed to fix her reading material. In a class full of men who believed they were writing the next great American novel, Robard’s steamy, exciting romance stood out – in a bad way. Pragmatically, Robards went to a local bookstore, looked at what was selling, and decided that was what she would write. During a graduate level creative writing class, her professor requested they write the first 50 pages of a book that would get published. When she wrote the first few pages of her first book, she had never even read a romance, noting that she had always considered them to be to un-intellectual for her liking. She had a submission accepted to Reader’s Digest at a young age, but in her family of doctors and lawyers, “author” was not a valid career choice. Karen Robards didn’t intend to become a best-selling romance author.
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