So I looked at my calendar and saw that my next RTB column is due, um, today. It posts on Tuesday. Normally I do this pretty well in advance and then it’s just a matter of posting it with the time-stamp preset whenever. But no brilliant ideas for a column have hit me since the last one and now I’m looking around going Hmmmm. What can I say this time?
There’s the whole erotic romance is porn shtick, but really. Yawn. How many times can the same old argument go on and retain any entertainment value?
There’s the recent author/reader flameouts but I think the less said about that the better.
Karen T. talks about whether or not there really are hordes of virgin heroines in romance these days as reader complaints seem to indicate, but I can’t get fired up about that one, either. Out of 11 romances so far, 2 of mine have virgin heroines. Not a majority by any means. I won’t say positively that I’ll never write another virgin heroine, but given the percentage of virgins in the age range I tend to write about (20s-30s), an abundance of intact hymens would seem unrealistic. I’m not reading a huge percentage of virgin heroines from other authors, either.
The most thougtful and inspiring blog post I’ve read recently isn’t on the topic of romance at all. It’s written by my agent Deidre Knight, who is also an author, and if you want a shot of inspiration, go read it here.
So I’m looking for romance fodder for my column and coming up dry. Maybe I’ll talk about YA romance, that’d be a change.
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