Guest Post by Romance Author of the Month Robyn Carr

We’re extremely fortunate to have best-selling author Robyn Carr contribute a guest blog post as part of our Romance Author of the Month series. In this guest post, Robyn shares her thoughts on the town of Virgin River, and how readers have fallen in love with not only the wonderful characters who live there, but with the town itself.

Welcome to My Virgin River…
by Robyn Carr

A lot of readers have written to ask if Virgin River is based on an actual town, because they’d like to move there. Unpack those boxes – the town lives only in my mind.

It didn’t take long for readers to reach out to me, to let me know what appealed to them about the series. They have naturally enjoyed the strong, handsome, virile men of Virgin River; they’ve admired the beauty, inner strength and intelligence of the women. But what I hear about most is a place where commitment is law – and not just romantic commitment, but the bonding of brotherhood, the fealty of neighbors, the loyalty in friendship. It seems the number of people who have ties to the military is simply huge – and the fact that the Virgin River men have served their country in times of war has lent greatly to their appeal. Not their sex appeal nearly as much as their emotional appeal. They seem to embody those values that readers hold as admirable. Honorable.

My readers like to watch the Virgin River characters work out their problems, cope with their challenges, get their lives on track again. It begs the question – can we find answers and role models in fiction? Well, considering one of the reasons we read fiction is for entertainment and we’re not very entertained unless the characters are up against a lot, must overcome great odds and evolve, I think it’s possible.

Virgin River is a town that not only exists in my mind, but can be created in any heart – it’s a place where the glass is half full, where burdens and challenges give us strength rather than break us, where fealty and friendship have more value than money, commitment is honored, and people do the right thing simply because it’s the right thing to do. And there’s lots more to come from Virgin River.

Want to live in Virgin River? Close your eyes… Open your heart…

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A big thank you to Robyn for her wonderful guest post! This is the last of our four articles on Robyn, but you can find out more about Robyn in our earlier article about her. You might also find our exclusive interview with Robyn an interesting read. To find out more about Robyn’s extremely popular Virgin River series, including Hidden Summit, the latest book in the series, check out our article spotlighting all the books in the series!