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Janine

Janine Ballard loves well-paced, character-driven novels in fantasy, romance, YA, and the occasional outlier genre. Examples include novels by Robert Jackson Bennett, Piper Huguley, Lisa Kleypas, Mark Lawrence, Jeannie Lin, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Naomi Novik, Nalini Singh, Tasha Suri, Megan Whalen Turner, and Martha Wells. Janine also writes fiction. Her critique partners are Sherry Thomas and Meredith Duran. Her erotic short story, “Kiss of Life,” appears in the Berkley anthology AGONY/ECSTASY under the pen name Lily Daniels. You can email Janine at janineballard at gmail dot com; she loves to talk about books and welcomes hearing from readers.