Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for May 21, 2010

Nora Roberts would love them!

Aw, there has to be something better for those two…

They’ll probably never get past first base anyways.

Take what you can get.

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.

Okay, I scared now.

Let me know when/IF spring arrives! “Global warming” has kept if feeling like winter here!

Try romance comics. They at least have pictures.

Do I jump start my career writing the Great American Novel at Harlequin or Hallmark?

Romance novels are very graphic, if you haven’t seen them in a few years. VERY graphic. Maybe too much for a young man?

You are better off this way Gaylord…trust me.

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’

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.

On the cartoon: Not following the old Maxim, huh guys?

More men might buy romance novels if they had centerfolds.

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.

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…)

Broomstick Mountain?

@ 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.

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?

Doesn’t he have a right to read whichever one of these books he likes too?