Penelope Marzec started reading romances as a teenager and fell in love with happy endings. A genuine New Jerseyan, she is a member of the New Jersey Romance Writers, FHL, the Catholic Writers Online, and EPIC. Twice an EPPIE winner for inspirational fiction, her paranormal, Irons In The Fire, was a nominee for Romantic Times Reviewers Choice award. She lives with her husband and an assortment of stuff her three daughters left behind when they went to college.

 

 

THE BEAST OF BLACKBIRCH MANOR
Paranormal Romance

KISS OF BLARNEY
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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