USA Today bestselling author Elda Minger is a RITA finalist and has won numerous awards, including Romantic Times' Best American Romance. She is well known in the romance world for over two dozen romance novels, both series and historical, and numerous novellas. She is a popular speaker, and has given several very well received lectures at National Conferences and Universities. Elda enjoys approaching the romance novel from a sociobiological standpoint, and this approach has made her talks different from many other conference presentations. Perhaps the most popular of these was a talk entitled, "Writing Erotic Sex Scenes That Sell", a discussion of the differences in male and female brains, and how men and women think. The tape from this talk went on to become the bestselling tape from the RWA National Conference in Orlando in 1997 and is still mentioned at conferences today. (It can be ordered through Bill Stephens Productions.) Elda began her writing career at Harlequin Enterprises, Ltd., the single biggest publisher of romance in the world. She sold her first romance in her twenties and never looked back. She wrote for the American Romance series, then moved on to Temptation. She has sold two historical romances, one to Zebra/Kensington, and one to Jove. Both were set in Eighteenth-Century England, a time period that fascinates her.
