When I sat down to write this, I knew exactly where my copy was on my bookshelf. I have probably re-read Blaze Wyndham over 100 times, easily. That book followed me from home to college, and then to Spain when I studied abroad and only brought three books in my luggage. Blaze was a dramatic and sexually saturated romp through Tudor history. I read Catherine Coulter’s historicals first, but when I found Blaze Wyndham ( A | K | G | AB | WorldCat ), well, my mind was indeed blown. Small was one of those authors whose books were a part of my foundation in romance. She was fearless and gracious, smart and tenacious. I am genuinely sad to hear that she’s died, though I know she was in poor health. Many writers, especially in erotic romance, talk about pushing the envelope, redrawing the boundaries, exploring new limits – Small did all of that, and she did it over thirty years ago. Bertrice Small, one of the original “Avon Ladies,” and the author of more than 50 romances, including many that hold the honored position of “the first romance I ever read” for many readers, died yesterday at the age of 77.īertrice Small was not the first romance author I read, but I think many readers have a book of Small’s that they discovered and still remember - because if you hadn’t read books like hers before, your mind was BLOWN.
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