Why Vintage?

The Knot is in a semi-new genre, typically called "vintage". Not old enough to be historical, not recent enough to be contemporary. I admit, I had second thoughts about the setting because few seemed to be interested in publishing this particular era.

I began this story about three years ago, and got stuck around chapter six. I'd done something wrong with the plot, and couldn't move on. Last fall, I dusted it off and my partners at Romance Writers World helped me revamp and move on. From there, the story came fast. I was so excited about how it was turning out that I began to research possible publishers. Enter The Wild Rose Press. They have a Vintage Rose line that embraced stories set betwen the 1920's and 1970's. The rest, is history.

In the end, the vintage setting won out. You know, I've heard it said that a good story can be put into--and work--in any setting, and maybe that's true. But some are better fits than others, and I couldn't have drawn Ben and Heather any stronger in any other time and place. I have a love and insterest in that time period, and believe that as that "Greatest Generation" passes on, readers will be more and more intersted in reading their stories.