karen van dee zer life affects the story simply by the fact is she was already a good romance writer, and wrote another series or harlequin books. "she's a major publisher of formula fiction, that has sold well over a billion copies of its romance titles. enough for about 20 percent of the world's population." So that alone the talent and skill for her to write such a good book like that was probably easy to her. An i hope to be a writer like her, just not for romance.