An author from One Tree Hill is set to become the next big thing in romance writing after her debut novel was published by New York published Random House.
Wendy Vella's historial romance novel The Reluctant Countess has been released as an e-book with the new digital Loveswept line.
"It's a huge honour to be published with Loveswept, which published books from many hugely popular romance authors in the 1980s and '90s and was relaunched last year as a digital-only imprint," says Vella.
Romance readers are particularly voracious consumers of e-books, says Vella.
"They like the convenience of being able to download books at any time of the day. It's exciting to be part of this new horizon of publishing. Relative to the sheer scale of the US e-book business, we're only just getting into it in New Zealand."