LaConnie Taylor-Jones

Did you know…Barbara Cartland is the world’s top-selling author with over 500 million copies sold!

Ms. Cartland was an English author, known for her numerous romance novels. She also became one of the United Kingdom’s most popular media personalities, appearing often at public events and on television, dressed in her trademark pink and discoursing on love, health and social political issues. Other than her fictional romance books, she also wrote books on health and nutrition, advocating vitamin supplementation, as well as biographies and stage plays. She was often billed as the Queen of Romance.

. . . the world’s first novel was written by a woman!

In the year 1007, a Japanese noble woman named Murasaki Shikibu wrote the world’s first full novel entitled, The Tale of Genji. This is the story of a prince looking for love and wisdom. In its English translation it covers 54 chapters over 1000 pages of text.