While not working on her romances, Ms. Hailstock chips away at other fiction that she hopes to get published -- though she says she will not abandon her first love.
Famous fans including Stephen Fry, as well as Heyer's nephew and daughter-in-law, turned up for the unveiling of the plaque in south-west London, with Fry revealing that he had been "completely hooked" on her romances since his school days.
That was Alma's department: Mahler's despair on discovering her romance with the architect Walter Gropius caused him to seek advice from Sigmund Freud).
No word on whether her romance storyline with Matthew Morrison will continue; the two have had some steamy moments, which Morrison has called "kind of weird".
Thinking back on her broken romance, she compares herself and her lover to Greek sailors lured by the sirens to their deaths on the rocks of the Aegean, destined to wind up "petrified, until the hide rotted from our bones".
On her blossoming romance, she later remarks, "I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face and commending his soul to Mortain".
The novel was a roman à clef based on her own romance with Jonathan Plummer, a much-younger Jamaican man whom she had met in 1995 and married three years later.
On her rumored romance with Ryan Phillippe: "Um, yeah.
On her whirlwind romance: "It happened quickly, but I was certain it was what I wanted.
In addition to being a senior product manager at EA/BioWare, working on the upcoming Mass Effect: Andromeda, Hilary Heskett Shapiro is also a published author working on her first romance novel.
