Susanne McCarthy

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Susanne McCarthy
Born 1949
London, England
Pen nameSusanne McCarthy
Occupation Novelist
Nationality British
Period 1986-present
Genre Romantic novel
Website
www.susannemccarthy.com

Susanne McCarthy (born 1949 in London, England) is an author of popular fiction with 25 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1986 to 1999. Some of these are available for e-readers on the Mills & Boon website. Recently she has started writing again, publishing direct to e-readers through Amazon.

Romance novel literary genre

Although the genre is very old, the romance novel or romantic novel discussed in this article is the mass-market version. Novels of this type of genre fiction place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." There are many subgenres of the romance novel, including fantasy, historical romance, paranormal fiction, and science fiction. Romance novels are read primarily by women.

Mills & Boon is a romance imprint of British publisher Harlequin UK Ltd. It was founded in 1908 by Gerald Rusgrove Mills and Charles Boon as a general publisher. The company moved towards escapist fiction for women in the 1930s. In 1971, the publisher was bought by the Canadian company Harlequin Enterprises, its North American distributor based in Toronto, with whom it had a long informal partnership. The two companies offer a number of imprints that between them account for almost three-quarters of the romance paperbacks published in Britain. Its print books are presently out-numbered and out-sold by the company's e-books, which allowed the publisher to double its output.

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Susanne has travelled widely and lived in various parts of the UK. She now lives in Devon with her husband and two dogs. She has retired, but still does some work as a teacher in adult education. She also sings in a local choir.

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Omnibus In Collaboration

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