Romance History: Mary Lyons
Mary-Jo Wormell, better known as Mary Lyons, was a popular British writer of 45 romance novels for Mills & Boon from 1983 to 2001.
Wormell, along with two other prolific Mills & Boon authors, launched Heartline Publishing on 14th February 2001. “I wanted to get rid of the couple in a clinch on the cover, so that you could actually read the books on the tube or on the bus without people thinking, ‘She’s reading a sloppy romance’.” The publishing house was meant to fill the gap between Mills & Boon and mainstream fiction, but it appears to have closed as the website is now defunct.
Wormell was a Conservative Party parliamentary candidate.
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