Wendy Tardieu is a published author of poetry, novels, and award-winning short stories. She has an MFA degree in creative writing from the University of Central Florida where she advocated for the recognition of commercial romance as a significant and dominant genre in the study of Literature. She has been a fan of romance since she was a teenager and wrote her first novel in a spiral notebook at age fourteen. She lives in Orlando, Florida where she was born and raised. She is a Lead Teller at a bank vault where she operates machines that count large volumes of cash. She has a husband, a little boy, a flavored lip gloss collection, and a hollow leg for chips and salsa. Her influences are Ray Bradbury, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Margaret Weis, and Tracy Hickman.

 

LORD OF THE SOLEMN WOODS
Fantasy Romance

THE BEAUMONT ROSE
Historical 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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