JAYNE PRESENTS: THE WOMEN OF www.romancenovel.tv

Jayne, here, to introduce Maria and Marisa, the ladies who created www.romancenovel.tv, an entertaining and truly unique online destination for those of us who love romance. If you haven't checked out the site, be sure to do so. They've got video interviews and guest blogs from all of your favorite authors and lots, lots more.





Maria: Yes, we’re identical twins. We were born four minutes apart and I have been the ‘bossy’ one from the start. Over the years, however, Marisa has learned all the wonderful traits of bossiness, so in that respect we’ve become a lot a like.

We’ve been best friends forever. You have no idea how wonderful that is. We’ve never had to do anything alone. We started the first day of school together, made new friends together, and had some very daring childhood adventures together. Having each other to lean on in new situations gave us that little extra confidence I don’t otherwise think we would have had.

When our paths went in different directions during and after college, we still stayed in close touch. About a decade ago we began working together in television production. While we didn’t live together, we lived in the same town which allowed us to commute together into Manhattan. Each day I would find Marisa with the latest romance novel in her hands. She couldn’t be disturbed and if you spoke to her, she would give you a dirty look. After all, she was doing the one thing that gave her enormous pleasure, reading. One day, I ran out of something to read, and she gave me a romance book. I was hooked. From that moment on riding the bus to and from work was one long pleasurable experience; after all we had our characters with us.

The funny thing is Marisa and I don’t agree on many things. While we’re closer than two pieces of dirt wedged in a corner, we have completely opposite tastes. From clothing to hair color and from movies and TV shows to music. The one thing we mostly agree on is romance books. In fact if Marisa likes a book, I’m sure to love it. That’s one of the reasons we started Romance Novel TV – it was something we could both unequivocally agree on – it combined our passion for television production with romance books. And we now find ourselves working more closely than ever on something we both really love. We don’t always come at things from the same place – but the great thing is we are always open to discussion. We divide the work evenly and we each have our separate strengths.

There are days when we laugh so hard we can’t breathe and then there are those days when we’re both so tired we can’t speak. But we share the good and the bad and we get up each day to face the challenges knowing that we’re both jumping off the cliff together.

The thing is, we couldn’t imagine not being together, working together and basically talking to each other on a daily basis. All the while we have our own sets of friends and family to keep us busy, busy, busy. But the one thing we can count on from each other, is honesty, caring, a spirit of fun and a general sense that whatever the other endeavors to do, we’ll be right behind the other. For us there is no greater feeling than to have someone around that cares. It’s girlfriend time, different than a husband, a boyfriend or a significant other. With us it’s always BFF time.

Marisa: Maria – you said it all.

How about you – is there someone special in your life that knows everything about you? Someone you share your secrets with? Or someone you go to when you just need a friend?