- Robin Schone
Robin Schone (born about
1954 ) is a best-selling Americanauthor of eroticromance novels .Biography
Schone read her first romance novel, "These Old Shades" by
Georgette Heyer , at age twelve, and began reading erotic novels when she was fifteen. Although she has always written stories for herself, Schone was determined to be a painter, and studied art, classics, and world religion atRockford College inRockford, Illinois . Schone claims to have begun writing after she was married because it was too messy to set up an easel and paint in a small apartment.Her fourth attempt at writing a novel, "Awaken, My Love", was the first of her books to sell. It has the distinction of being the first romance novel to begin with a
masturbation scene. After being rejected by 28 agents, the book sold to a publisher five days after the twenty-ninth agent submitted it.cite web | last = Schone | first = Robin | coauthors = | title = A Writer Rants About Sexuality | work= | pages = | language = | publisher = All About Romance | date = 1999 | url =http://www.likesbooks.com/wb16.html | accessdate = 2007-03-22] ]Schone suffered greatly from fibroid tumors in her
uterus , and underwent amyomectomy after she became a published author. In order to commemorate the organization,Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services , which helped her research her medical issues, she spearheaded the creation of "Captivated", the first erotic romance anthology.She was involved in a legal dispute with Kensington Publishing that has since been resolved. Because of this dispute, Schone did not publish a book for several years. Her novels have been translated into Chinese, Czech, French, German, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.
Schone met her husband, Don, on their first day of the school year in college, and they married nine months later, in June
1975 . They currently live inIllinois and do not have children.Bibliography
*"Awaken, My Love" (1995)
*"The Lady's Tutor" (2002)
*"The Lover" (2002)
*"Gabriel's Woman" (2001)Anthologies
*"Captivated" (2001)
*"Fascinated" (2000)References
External links
* [http://www.robinschone.com/ Robin Schone Official Website]
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