In the comments (Yay! Comments!) for my post on he-man heroes, Kimber said, There ought to be a moratorium on heroes named (or nicknamed) Devil, Demon, Damien, Lucien, Lucifer, Luc, Lion, Lyon, Hawk, Raven, Rayne, or Wulf. These used to be what the hero’s HORSE was called. I heartily second…
Oh, it’s so very frustrating! I’ve dreamed of writing romance novels since I was too young to even read romance novels. I love to write. I write all the time. So why the hell can’t I just finish something? I’m within ten thousand words of the end of my novel….
Does it seem like Romance heroes are becoming ever more Alpha? Back in the day, when I was stealing my mother’s old Harlequin Presents titles, the hero was usually “a doctor” or “a businessman”. In historicals, the hero was usually Sir SuitablyEnglishSurname or Lord SuitablyEnglishName. By the time I was…
When she’s not comparing gays to child molesters, and insisting on a definition of Romance Fiction that reads like she pasted it together from torn up shreds of the senate’s failed Defense of Marriage Amendment, Jan Butler seems like a pretty nice person. She likes baseball, and Mary Higgens Clark….
Remember back in the day? Back when Romance novels featured nurses, doctors, and the lavender-shaded post-marital fade to black? No, wait, not that far back. I meant, back in the late eighties – think Fabio covers – when Romance Novels featured sex, but the heroine was always a virgin, and…
Sometimes, I wonder why I want to write publish novels. Writing I will always do, because I like a good story and no other author ever tells quite the story I want to hear. Sometimes, I wonder why I work and polish and rewrite ’til so late at night that…
