Bethany Campbell
Bethany Campbell has been lucky enough to win a variety of
honors in romance writing, including three RITA's, a
Maggie, and several Romantic Times Critic's Choice Awards.
She keeps them all on a shelf with two statues of cartoon
characters-one of Alfred E. Newman and one of Little Lulu.
Campbell says, "Alfred's giving that famous gap-toothed
grin and standing on a base with his motto: What? Me Worry?
Lulu is just smiling."
Why Newman and Lulu? "Well, Alfred's there to put things in
perspective. As for Lulu-I don't want to go too serious
here, because Lulu was a very, very funny comic book
series, just utterly delightful-but she was also a great
heroine.
"Lulu wasn't a brat, and she was perpetually getting
stereotyped as "only a girl," but she always broke the
bonds of stereotyping-I loved it that she could always take
on the whole Boys' Club-Tubby, Eddy, Iggy, and Willy-and
beat them with smarts and style, rather than violence.
"The stories were always good, excellent plots and dialogue-
they hold up after all these years. I've got a collection
of them, and they really are still top notch."
Cartoon art is, obviously, one of Campbell's passions, but
she doesn't want to be pegged as a "cartoonist" writer.
Another of her enthusiasms is Shakespeare. Every year she
and her husband go to the Stratford, Ontario, Shakespeare
Festival, a tradition that eventually resulted in their son
becoming a professor of Shakespeare.
PS-Love You Madly is Campbell's forty-second book. Its
heroine is based loosely on Campbell's long-time friend,
Carol S., an accomplished artist in fabrics and a very
funny woman with a gift for whimsy.
She has published not only Harlequin Superromances, but
traditional Romances, Temptations, Intrigues, and
contributed five books to the popular Crystal Creek series.
She has also written four books of romantic suspense for
Bantam Books.
She and her husband, Dan, live in the Arkansas Ozarks with
their collection of cartoon art. Their favorite pieces are
parodies of Shakespeare from Mad Magazine and National
Lampoon.
"Come up sometime and see my etchings," teases Campbell. "I
mean it."
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Series
Books:One Track Mind (Harlequin Nascar), August 2009
Mass Market Paperback
The Secret Heiress, December 2008
Thoroughbred Legacy
Mass Market Paperback
Truth And Consequences, March 2008
Stories Set in the World of NASCAR
Paperback
Wild Horses, March 2005
Crystal Creek
Paperback
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