Rom coms, meet cutes, mystery men, courageous women, and the Happy endings of today draw a direct line to the words between the covers of Emilie Loring\'s romance novels. --Valentine Loring Titus, Emilie Loring\'s granddaughter.
Her skillful, sensitive portrait brings Emilie alive for me and adds many new dimensions--hard working, organized, feminist--with an extraordinary sense of optimism, and faith that things would turn out all right.
I am personally grateful to Patti for filling out a dim, long-ago picture of my grandmother.
This is a woman\'s story in swiftly changing times for women; a charming story with little-known anecdotes about prominent authors; and the story of a writer in the making, with advice and encouragement for aspiring authors.
Why not make an art of it? (Emilie Loring) Emilie Loring lived through two World Wars, a pandemic, the Great Depression, and deep, personal loss with her optimism intact and thirty best-selling novels to show for it.
After all, living is the greatest thing we\'ll ever do.
With never-before-published photographs, privileged access to the Loring family archives, and twenty years of meticulous research, Patti Bender reveals a woman who lived as she wrote, with intelligence, humor, and wisdom.
And now Emilie\'s own compelling Life story is finally told in full.
Now with generations of readers, Loring\'s books have sold more than thirty-seven million copies in a dozen languages.
Her readership has continued long after her passing.
Her oft-quoted phrases are part of the American lexicon.
Loring\'s books brimmed with intricate plot twists, intense imagery, and page-turning excitement, setting her works apart from the drugstore novels of the early- to mid-20th century.
Happy Landings: Emilie Loring\'s Life, Writing and Wisdom shares this best-selling author\'s uplifting story for the first time.
With a career spanning 40 years, Emilie Baker Loring saw millions of her books sold during her lifetime.
Rom coms, meet cutes, mystery men, courageous women, and the Happy endings of today draw a direct line to the words between the covers of Emilie Loring\'s romance novels
