SA writer joins stars of her trade
Johannesburg romance writer Romy Sommer is the first African author to be nominated for the prestigious international Romance Writers of America award.Although her novel Not a Fairy Tale did not win in the mid-length contemporary category, Sommer was "thrilled and honoured" to be nominated. Speaking from San Diego, California, where the authors gathered for the awards yesterday, she said: "The authors nominated for this award over the years include some of the biggest names in romance publishing and I still can't believe I am now one of them."A film producer by day and founder of the Romance Writers' Organisation of SA, she said there was a thriving local community of romance writers. While local sales figures are not available, globally it exceeds $1-billion a year. The Afrikaans romance market was "very big"."English romance readers tend to read books published overseas, as local publishers do not publish much romance, if any, in English." ..
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