Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor’s Legacy Remembered by Romance Writers

March 24, 2011

Following the loss of one of the most iconic women in Hollywood, Susan Elizabeth Phillips and other romance writers offer insight into what Elizabeth Taylor taught us about Love and Passion. Read more at USA Today.

"Being the most beautiful woman in world doesn't guarantee a happy love life, but it surely did give her a passionate one." —Susan Elizabeth Phillips, author of Call Me Irresistible.

"Liz Taylor loved fiercely, blithely, and sometimes rashly — but we should all be lucky enough to come to the end of our lives knowing that when love was offered, we leapt at it. And in her advocacy for AIDS patients — at a time when America had its back turned to the problem — she taught us that love is not merely a matter of wedding vows; she showed a deep love of humanity even at its most fragile." —Eloisa James, author of When Beauty Tamed the Beast

"Not only was Elizabeth Taylor a beautiful person inside and out, she taught us by example to love with an open and fearless heart. She played many wonderful heroines on screen, but she was a true, compassionate heroine in her own life."—Rachel Gibson, author of Any Man of Mine

"She taught me that enduring love isn't easy, even for the most beautiful woman in the world." —Elizabeth Lowell, author of Death Echo

"Liz taught us that in matters of the heart, settling is unacceptable. Finding love isn't easy, and keeping it is even more difficult, but the journey is worth every minute, because ultimately, passion and romance are what life is all about. And she proved it again and again — in friendships, in relationships, and in her work. And we can all take a lesson from that." —Sarah Maclean, author of Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart

-Annie

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Furious Love

June 10, 2010

If you attended our title presentation at ALA Midwinter in January, you may recall that I confessed to having an intense teenage crush on Richard Burton. If you missed it, here's some auditory blackmail.

Furious Love hits shelves on June 15th and there's a reason I'm ridiculously excited: for years, I haven't had anyone to talk to about Richard Burton and Liz Taylor. Now, suddenly, there are stories in Vanity Fair and Time Magazine, coverage on Good Morning America, blog posts…it's the best excuse for my inner granny to come out at full force. So what did I, a die-hard Taylor/Burton fan, think of Furious Love?

Reader, I loved it. Biography buffs, tabloid addicts, cinephiles, jewelry collectors, romantics…will all find something to sink their teeth into in this compulsively readable dual biography. Burton's love letters to Taylor, many of which are excerpted, are incredibly intimate–I was visibly choked up by the end of the book, and wandered from cubicle to cubicle, telling anyone who would listen how sad it was, how tragic, that two people who loved each other so well could end up apart in the end. But Furious Love isn't all tragedy–rather, it is the story of a flawed but timeless passion that began on a movie-set and changed the face of American culture forever. Take a peek inside the book, check out some of the quoted love letters in Time, and know that summer flings–quite simply–pale in comparison.

-Kayleigh