title: How to Write a Brilliant Romance Workbook: The easy step-by-step method on crafting a powerful romance (Brilliant Writer Series)
author:  Susan May Warren 
description: Susan May Warren is the Christy, RITA and Carol award-winning author of over fifty novels with Revell, Tyndale, Barbour, Steeple Hill and Summerside Press. A prolific novelist with over 1 million books sold, Susan has written contemporary and historical romances, romantic-suspense, thrillers, rom-com and Christmas novellas. She loves to help people launch their writing careers and is the founder of www.MyBookTherapy.com and www.LearnHowtoWriteaNovel.com, a writing website that helps authors get published and stay published. Shes also the author of the popular writing method, The Story Equation. Find excerpts and reviews of her novels at www.susanmaywarren.com
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  ## Five Degrees of Romance
  
  
  
  
  
  # A Fool for Love
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## Susan Mallery
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter One](Mallery__Susan_-
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  [Chapter Two](Mallery__Susan_-
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  [Chapter Three](Mallery__Susan_-
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  [Chapter Four](Mallery__Susan_-
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  [Chapter Five](Mallery__Susan_-
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  ##
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
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