Sis: Georgette Heyer doesn’t write bodice rippers. You’re off sub-genre. She did what are now called Regencies.
Jeff: you mean the Blaze or Temptations ones. Lots of them romance lines are far less sexual explicit. Again sub genre.
Romance novels are now like the short story market used to be, the place writers go to get their first publication. The real requirement is now a romance and happy ending, period. Lines of suspense and mystery, supernatural and occult, SF. The market has exploded.
I used to sell the things on eBay so I got way too informed.
Since the only female that Gaylord and Irwin have contact with seems to be Broomie, the Romance Novel option probably IS the best they can do. Either that, or there’s a hidden “Brokeback Mountain” storyline we aren’t being shown.
You beat me to it. I always disdained romance novels, but I do enjoy Georgette Heyer novels. The first one I ever read was one called Devil’s Cub, the conversation in the opening chapter of having the body of a highwayman disposed of was hilarious.
I refuse to read the porn that is sold as romance novels these days.
MontanaLady over 14 years ago
Nora Roberts would love them!
margueritem over 14 years ago
Aw, there has to be something better for those two…
Llewellenbruce over 14 years ago
They’ll probably never get past first base anyways.
GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago
Take what you can get.
Sisyphos over 14 years ago
A (female) friend once conned me into reading a bodice-buster romance novel. –Not the worst thing I’ve ever read, but one was definitely enough!
EDIT: It was a Georgette Heyer, but I don’t recall the title.
Ooops! Premium Member over 14 years ago
Okay, I scared now.
The Duke 1 over 14 years ago
Let me know when/IF spring arrives! “Global warming” has kept if feeling like winter here!
Yukoner over 14 years ago
Try romance comics. They at least have pictures.
lewisbower over 14 years ago
Do I jump start my career writing the Great American Novel at Harlequin or Hallmark?
Kvasir42 Premium Member over 14 years ago
Romance novels are very graphic, if you haven’t seen them in a few years. VERY graphic. Maybe too much for a young man?
wicky over 14 years ago
You are better off this way Gaylord…trust me.
tirnaaisling over 14 years ago
Spring seems to have been skipped here this year, two days ago we had temperatures at 0C and a sprinkling of snow, today it’s 25C…
It doesn’t seem to have upset the birds and bees, young men might be a different matter tho’
freeholder1 over 14 years ago
Sis: Georgette Heyer doesn’t write bodice rippers. You’re off sub-genre. She did what are now called Regencies.
Jeff: you mean the Blaze or Temptations ones. Lots of them romance lines are far less sexual explicit. Again sub genre.
Romance novels are now like the short story market used to be, the place writers go to get their first publication. The real requirement is now a romance and happy ending, period. Lines of suspense and mystery, supernatural and occult, SF. The market has exploded.
I used to sell the things on eBay so I got way too informed.
freeholder1 over 14 years ago
On the cartoon: Not following the old Maxim, huh guys?
Sherlock Watson over 14 years ago
More men might buy romance novels if they had centerfolds.
Ooops! Premium Member over 14 years ago
Clark Kent ~ funny that your name is the name of a character that is very similiar to the typical portrayal of males in romance novels.
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
Since the only female that Gaylord and Irwin have contact with seems to be Broomie, the Romance Novel option probably IS the best they can do. Either that, or there’s a hidden “Brokeback Mountain” storyline we aren’t being shown.
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that…)
Coyoty Premium Member over 14 years ago
Broomstick Mountain?
1148559 over 14 years ago
@ freeholder1,
You beat me to it. I always disdained romance novels, but I do enjoy Georgette Heyer novels. The first one I ever read was one called Devil’s Cub, the conversation in the opening chapter of having the body of a highwayman disposed of was hilarious.
I refuse to read the porn that is sold as romance novels these days.
RinaFarina over 14 years ago
ok, I see the vulture and the troll (for some reason I can’t remember their names). But my question is:
Where is the squirrel? or rather, the sqrrrl?
RinaFarina over 14 years ago
Doesn’t he have a right to read whichever one of these books he likes too?