I am 31 years old, a mother of two children and have been married to my college sweetheart for nine years now. I hold down a full time job as a research scientist studying citrus. Yep, I’m a nerd! For as long as I can remember, I have loved to read. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I discovered romance and it was love at first sight. Some of my favorite authors include Linda Howard, Lisa Kleypas, Kresley Cole, Karen Marie Moning and Suzanne Brockmann. I read mainly romance with urban fantasy, fantasy and women’s fiction occasionally thrown in the mix. I love it all; contemporary, historical, paranormal and romantic suspense.

I am a sucker for friends to lovers theme, especially when the characters first fall in love as children. Ambitious men who are overly protective; good girls paired up with bad boys; opposites attract with lots of witty banter. Mail order brides; marriage of convenience; epic historicals that allow the character to develop over the course of the story and lots of drama. Some of my hot buttons are too much mental lusting or heady internal monologues; evil villains, just for the sake of being evil; big misunderstandings that keep the heroine and hero apart for a large part of the story; overuse of pet names; silly or goofy characters in a
paranormal.

Visit Jill’s blog at http://romancerookie.blogspot.com/.