THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Sunday, November 5, 1995               TAG: 9511040038
SECTION: COMMENTARY               PAGE: J3   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Book Review
SOURCE: BILL RUEHLMANN
                                             LENGTH: Short :   22 lines

HEROINES DEFY STEREOTYPES IN NORFOLK WRITER'S ROMANCES

[This column is not available electronically. For complete text, please see microfilm.] MEMO: Bill Ruehlmann is a mass communication professor at Virginia Wesleyan

College. ILLUSTRATION: Photos

Chris Strong has written a half-dozen romance novels under the name

``Christina Cordaire.''

by CNB