tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post8498679720490098062..comments2024-02-22T17:59:50.213-05:00Comments on in so many words...: Forgotten Books Friday: IN DEFENSE OF LOVE (1987) by Kathleen CreightonYvettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-13271358545886139942011-06-22T08:50:57.279-04:002011-06-22T08:50:57.279-04:00Julie: Great. I think you'd like it, if you...Julie: Great. I think you'd like it, if you're in the mood for a good contemporary. Paperback Swap had it a little while ago. :)Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-59865862194945793332011-06-22T08:01:07.348-04:002011-06-22T08:01:07.348-04:00You've sold me! I'm gonna look for this on...You've sold me! I'm gonna look for this one! Thanks for the recommendation!Julie at Outlandish Dreaminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16595989966510183531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-60594222207804556602011-06-18T10:04:49.246-04:002011-06-18T10:04:49.246-04:00Kathy: My job is to put the info out there, your j...Kathy: My job is to put the info out there, your job is to pick and choose. HA! Good jobs all around, I think. :)Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-66851715582276958122011-06-17T21:43:58.575-04:002011-06-17T21:43:58.575-04:00Not a romance reader, but if this is combined with...Not a romance reader, but if this is combined with a mystery and has a happy ending, why not bend the genre a bit, I say.<br /><br />I have way too much on my TBR mountain and lots in my library reserve account, and tons on my TBR list with all of these great blog posts of ideas -- and movies, too.kathy d.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-5504898794142459922011-06-17T19:49:41.707-04:002011-06-17T19:49:41.707-04:00Todd: I think the monthly thing depends on your co...Todd: I think the monthly thing depends on your contract. Every writer is not writing a book for every month that's for sure. And you might, depending on when you pick up the contract, have more writing time between books.Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-60458781519316916392011-06-17T19:40:21.826-04:002011-06-17T19:40:21.826-04:00I'm not sure every writer was/is expected to w...I'm not sure every writer was/is expected to write a novel a month, but if so, that does help to explain some of the burnout. Not that the long novellas of most of the lines in the 1980s (I think the bodice-busters were the first to tend toward bugcrushing as well) would be too much more than most professionals produce in a typical month in wordage, anyway.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-5013563262382389522011-06-17T15:16:12.775-04:002011-06-17T15:16:12.775-04:00John: I agree. I didn't think we weren't f...John: I agree. I didn't think we weren't free to write about any book, genre or otherwise. I thought it should only qualify as 'forgotten'. :)<br /><br />Is next week Gay Pride Weekend?<br /><br />I'll want to write something in respect to that as well, I think.<br /><br />I've got a terrific series in mind. No hints.Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-7836053466469085272011-06-17T15:05:42.202-04:002011-06-17T15:05:42.202-04:00Yvette - I love it! Who says that FFB has to be on...Yvette - I love it! Who says that FFB has to be only SF, crime, fantasy and the occasional western? Wait till my FFB post for next week when I'm writing about a book in celebration of Gay Pride Weekend. It has nothing to do with my two obsessions in fiction - crime or the supernatural. HA!J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-4925623352702456922011-06-17T14:35:05.436-04:002011-06-17T14:35:05.436-04:00Dorte: Well, this book has nasty crime (attempted ...Dorte: Well, this book has nasty crime (attempted murder) mixed in. One of the reasons I like it so much. I'm not one for sappy romance with nothing else going on. <br /><br />I tend not to read much romance these days, too much else going on, reading-wise. But I will not turn down a good romantic thriller if it's well-written. Nope.Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-35920723099036475932011-06-17T14:32:35.085-04:002011-06-17T14:32:35.085-04:00Todd: I think for some writers, the monthly deadli...Todd: I think for some writers, the monthly deadline is a very good thing. Some people just work better under those conditions.<br /><br />I do agree with you that 'restrictions' put on romance writers will often do in what might have begun as a good idea. Some publishers will just not allow for 'new and different' in style or characerization. There are as MANY 'journeyman' writers in the field as there are, I think, in the mystery/thriller genre. I try to avoid those as best I can. :)<br /><br />But there are certainly many writers of romance who often broke the mold and kept right on writing and having great careers. Anne Stuart is definitely one who did this and in a different way so is Mary Balogh. <br /><br />Edith Layton is another who, if she had not passed away, would, I think, have gone on to bigger and better.Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-92086583272150003192011-06-17T14:18:40.523-04:002011-06-17T14:18:40.523-04:00I switched from romance to crime when I was quite ...I switched from romance to crime when I was quite young, and unless you combine the love story with a nasty crime, I am not sure I am going to revert to romance again - no matter how much you tempt me. But of course I also read MY favourites for entertainment :)Dorte Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14535044092722418173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3185294584889963228.post-83106656304732482812011-06-17T14:10:50.378-04:002011-06-17T14:10:50.378-04:00Almost all publishers have monthly schedules, when...Almost all publishers have monthly schedules, when you think about it, and there are plenty of romance writers who can write very well indeed (I think the strictures on commercial romance publishing are too tight, and as more romance publishing goes to ebooks, a lot of those strictures are starting to fall by the wayside). My most telling experience, from when I was reviewing short fiction for the now defunct magazine THE FIX, was with one of those three novella books of romantic suspense, where the established Name's story was clearly phoned in, not even trying, while the newbie of the trio was writing a damned good suspense story, but, either at someone's instruction or out of a sense of what the market demanded, kept undermining the buildup so that the tension was dissipated (the third story, by a journeywoman in the field, unsurprisingly fell between these in quality).<br /><br />I have a couple of issues of Harlequin's magazine FIVE GREAT ROMANCES, and one of the stories in one of those issues would've fit very well into ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE one the stands at the same time...except it had too much sex in it.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com