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By siliconindia | Wednesday, 29 August 2012, 12:08 Hrs

#7 Customized Romance Novels

Most of us tend to imagine what it would be like to star as the protagonist in a novel that we have read. Thanks to YourNovel.com, we no longer need to imagine since it can be made true.

YourNovel.com is a peculiar website, created by the husband-and-wife writing team of Kathy Newbern and J.S. Fletcher that inserts any couple as the hero and heroine in their own personalized romance novel.

The readers are provided with dozens of books to choose from, each featuring a different theme and exotic location around the world. For instance, beach themes, detective stories and trips abroad. They can also opt for a number of details about themselves, such as eye colors, pet names for each other, best friend's names, places of work and favorite musical groups, in order to make the book as personalized as possible.

The site also gives options that allow the readers to insert their own photo on the cover and specify whether they want a story that is wild, with a sexy tone, or mild, which is somewhat cuddly and flirty.

Fletcher and Newbern hatched the idea for their novel site while they themselves were dating. "We acted on a great idea, and today are going strong. We firmly believe that the only way to get something done is to do it," Fletcher writes on their website.