P. Dangelico

P. Dangelico is a romance and romantic suspense author though she has said that loves romance in all its forms. Making stories is all she does and this can be done anywhere from the movies, when she is driving, in the shower or anywhere she feels like it. Dangelico was born in Milan, Italy and growing up watched her father paint the covers of the novels of Amanda Quick and Danielle Steele that were some of the best romance authors of the time. As such, it was only a matter of time before she put all that exposure to the romance genre and a love for storytelling onto paper. However, filmmaking rather than novel writing was her first love and she thus started out as a screenwriter. Her biggest inspirations were Nancy Myers and Nora Ephron, two women she saw as giants who wrote stories about women in a male-dominated industry. Besides the Steele and Quick novels that she read as a child, she also loved the likes of Joseph Heller’s “Catch 22,” Bernhard Schlink’s “Reader,” Richard Adams’s “Watership Down,” Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” and Laura Kinsale’s “The Star and the Shadow.” After several years of living on the West Coast, she went back to the East Coast and currently lives with her family in New Jersey. When she is not writing, she loves to paint, daydream about the New York Jets or muck horse poo in her barn.