Award-winning Dutch author Anita Verkerk lives in the Netherlands with her husband, two sons and four cats. She is graduated in mediaeval history, and was a middle school teacher for several years.

She loves traveling, reading, and mysterious castles. But her real passion is writing romance.

Anita published a bunch of medical romances, castle romances and romantic suspense novels in Holland. Many of her titles are on library shelves all over Holland and Belgium. Hundreds of romantic short stories appeared in many well-known Dutch magazines.

"THE ENCHANTED CASTLE", winner of the Haunted Hearts Contest 2003 (contemporary category) is her first publication in English.

More info is on her website at http://home.hccnet.nl/verkerk.2/

 


 

 


Legends of the Low Lands 3:
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN
Contemporary Romance

THE ENCHANTED CASTLE
Paranormal Romance

 

 

 

BOOK LENGTH:

Epic Novel = 100,000 words and up; 400 pages and up (double-spaced)
Full Novel = 80,000-100,000 words; 320-400 pages (double-spaced)
Mid Novel = 61,000-79,000 words; 244-316 pages (double-spaced)
Category = 40,000-60,000 words; 160-240 pages (double-spaced)
Novella = 20,000-39,000 words; 80-156 pages (double-spaced)

SENSUALITY RATING:

SWEET: behind-closed-doors sex and/or very mild love scenes and sexual encounters
SENSUAL: love scenes comparative to most romance novels published today
SPICY: heavy sexual tension; graphic details and more sexual encounters
CARNAL: graphic sex and language; may be offensive to delicate readers; contains many sexual encounters and can include unconventional sex not normally found in romance; may or may not be romance; typically known as erotica

 

 

 

 

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