Woodiwiss started writing novels as a stay-at-home mother. At a sock hop when she was 16 she met Ross Woodiwiss, a second lieutenant in the Air Force. “They are an escape for the reader, like an Errol Flynn movie.”īorn Kathleen Erin Hogg, June 3, 1939, in Alexandria, La., she was the youngest of eight children.
“These books are fairy tales,” Woodiwiss said in a 1983 interview with People magazine. “In the next instant his lips moved hungrily over hers, stirring feelings that threatened to sweep her away,” Woodiwiss wrote.Īn arranged marriage to Lord Saxton, who wears a mask at all times, works out surprisingly well for Erienne until Seton reenters her life. They waste no time getting to know each other. In one scene Erienne waits at home to receive “yet another unwelcome suitor” as “the roiling chaos of dark clouds” churn overhead, Woodiwiss wrote.įinally, Erienne does meet a man she finds irresistible, the dashing Christopher Seton. She is the leading lady in “A Rose in Winter” (1982), which was excerpted in Good Housekeeping magazine. One of Woodiwiss’ typical heroines, Erienne Fleming, is beautiful, kind and adventuresome. “I write love stories, with a little spice.” “I’m insulted when my books are called erotic,” Woodiwiss said in a 1978 interview with Cosmopolitan magazine. She set her dramas against Medieval England, colonial America and other familiar backgrounds and wrote sex scenes in such complete detail that she became known as a pioneer of the “erotic historical” novel.
A number of Woodiwiss’ titles, including “Ashes in the Wind” (1979), raced to the top of the New York Times paperback bestsellers list.
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