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July 02, 2008 | Wednesday at 11:43 pm | 3 Comments
From the “If I Had a Bodrillion Dollars and Free Healthcare” department comes my pondering of a “more better documentary” about romance – one that started at RT and kept going to RWA, The Romance Slam Jam, and some of the more awesome chapter conferences and reader events. Alas, my million has not rolled in so I’m left to dream.
But this month’s letter from RWA President Sherry Lewis reveals her year as “The Face of Romance” - a title that made her cringe, as she is not normally, as she puts it, a “bona fide introvert.” Lewis, who declines all interviews no matter how many times I say “Pbbbblease?” represented RWA at the Public Library Association’s National Conference with Allison Kelley and Stephani Fry (all of whom are very cool, says I) and her experience proves that there’s some genuinely active and eager people out there looking for romance to read (and not necessarily man titty to grope along with it):
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January 18, 2008 | Friday at 8:24 pm | 72 Comments
As Sarah noted yesterday, the fine folks at Romancenovel.tv posted a video of the two of us talking about romance novels. (WHY do I look and sound like a chipmunk whenever I'm recorded? It's enough to drive a girl to drink. And I'm allergic to alcohol, which means I end up chugging chocolate milk, which really doesn't do much for my romantic image. GODDAMMIT.) (Also, in case this wasn't clear: the people at Romancenovel.tv did a great job. I'm just the least telegenic person ever, with the exception of Carrot Top.) Anyway, if you ever wondered how high-pitched and squeaky I can get when I become excited talking about something, this is an opportunity.
So I meant to write this long, thoughtful post about the evolution of the category romance and the differences in style between American and British/Australian category releases to go with the video, and I was outlining it when I realized, no, what I REALLY wanted to do was post a Top 10 Things I Learned from Category Romances and a very silly comparison table. Screw erudition! Capsule summaries are full of win and awesome!
Top Ten Things I Learned from Reading Category Romances As…
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January 17, 2008 | Thursday at 5:57 pm | 51 Comments
It’s all category, all day, here and at RomanceNovel.tv where both Candy and I are yammering in a video about category romance, while Jane from Dear Author is writing at the rn.tv blog about her experiences reading categories. Below is my entry on the subject.
Since I started my steady diet of category romance, I have learned the following three things:
1. I’m something of a judgmental wanker and I owe all category authors an apology. I dismissed this particular facet of romance because I didn’t think it was enough bang for my buck - I read so fast, it takes me about 2 hours to finish a category, at the most, and my prejudice was based on the fact that 2 hours is not a lot of enjoyment for the cover price. I was SO wrong. I’ve got plenty of enjoyment, like merde and mon dieu (TM Nathalie Grey). Yeah, my head? Was up my ass. I was SO wrong. Seems my own attitude needed adjustment, because as Marisa from RN.TV said while we were taping last week, category romances can be a perfect “quick fix” romance read, and…
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