yournovel.com inc. is the brainchild of husband/wife writing team Kathy M. Newbern and J.S. Fletcher, who write together as Fletcher Newbern. They not only developed the concept and founded the company in 1992, but have written 17 of the 24 current novels available.

When not writing romance, they work as travel writers and have visited many of the exotic locations that are the settings for their personalized romance novels.

The other six books were written by these authors:

Ten contest winners who wrote "Celebrating Romance," ten short stories selected to celebrate yournovel.com's 10th anniversary.

Marcy Thomas, one of the contest winners, who wrote "Treasure Seekers," "Heart of the Keys," "Rome: Diamonds, Danger and Desire," "Season's Greeting, Season's Love," and two of the four novellas in "Shore Thing II."

Jennifer Price who wrote "High Seas Romance."

Geno Vincenzo who wrote "Missed Tryst."

As to how yournovel.com started, it's a great story that dates back to 1992:

Newbern: "I was on a panel at a public relations conference and the ice-breaker question was: 'What would people be surprised to find out about you?' I answered that I had written a yet-to-be published romance novel, which got an appropriate response. Fletcher, then my boyfriend, had driven to the conference with me, and at lunch, one of the women, a friend, at the table said, 'Wouldn't it be great to read about yourself in one of those romance novels?' Well, we all laughed and kidded around about it. Then, on the four-hour drive home, Fletcher and I looked at each other, and the proverbial light bulb went off. We said, 'You know, we could do that!' and actually started outlining our first book, 'Another Day in Paradise,' on the back of a manila folder on the drive. We started writing it the next day."

Fletcher: "We acted on a great idea, and today are going strong. We firmly believe that the only way to get something done is to do it."

Newbern: "We did not want to look back at some point and say, 'You know, if we had just done that personalized romance novel thing...' "