What is love?

LOVE is the most basic of human needs, right behind food, clothing, and shelter. It's the universal emotion of all humans.

Ever wondered why there are so many songs about love? So many movies with at least a subplot of love? So many books about love?

We crave love and acceptance the way desert craves the rain. For love, wars have been waged. Feuds fought. Lives endangered. Parents defied. Thrones abdicated. Risks taken.

Does true love promise there will never be problems? No! Love brings the grandest joy, the deepest sense of belonging, the most exquisite pain. Romance is loving all through the drudgery, the sorrow, the flat humdrum, and the disappointment, because ultimately, the relationship is worth saving.

Romance is a husband driving all the way across town to give his wife a hug when she's having a terrible day, or taking her to her favorite chick flick.

Donna Hatch, meet the author

I write because it's a good explanation for the voices I hear in my head all the time! They say writing is just a form of socially-accepted schizophrenia and I firmly believe that. And so do I. But I digress.

Ahem. I've had a passion for writing since I was about 8 when I wrote I first short story. During my sophomore year in high school, I wrote my first full-length novel, a science fiction romance. (I should burn that, it was so bad!) I wrote my second novel, a fantasy romance, during my senior year, which, many years and at least a hundred revisions later, finally got published.