Wednesday, March 18, 2026
FOR THE RECORD: ALL my books, both published and unpublished, under my two pen names (Renee Regent and Leslie Crowne) were written by ME.Only me!My brain devised the premise, plot, and details.My heart created the characters—their personalities, their emotions, their growth arcs.My soul revealed the themes, the underlying messages of the stories. Authentic As F*ckEvery laugh, every tear. The violence, the tenderness, the sadness, the orgasms (yes, I said it!), all came from my life experience, or my imagination. Some of it was difficult to get on the page, some of it was easy, but every word is ultimately my responsibility, my creation.I worked with honest human beta readers, ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
That’s Renee, with two e’s…. In July 2013, I attended my first Romance Writers of America conference in Atlanta Georgia,where I happen to live. I enjoyed every minute of it, but for months afterward, I had no idea my experience had been recorded for posterity.Love Between the CoversApparently, a documentary film about the romance novel industry was being recorded during the conference. Several months later an author friend of mine, acclaimed erotic romanceauthor Annabel Joseph, lent me a copy of the movie to watch. Imagine my surprise when I came up on screen, in a shot of the audience at a seminar. Another author friend, Lainie S. Flin, was beside me in ...