If you haven’t heard, a NTY contributor finally cracked the romance genre code! Thank you, Jesus!
Two much more qualified, eloquent and masters of sarcasm than I have responded brilliantly. Since both articles link to the original I won’t.
Be sure to show Cait Reynolds and Lauren Layne some love and buy them a virtual drink!
Full disclosure: after I post this blog, I’m probably going to go day drink and listen to Aretha’s “Respect” on repeat. Mansplaining romance and erotica has a way of doing that to me.
Cait Reynolds – Mansplaining the Romance Genre
And if “courtship and female self-empowerment” are still “fantasies,” as Robert Gottlieb seems to think, we have a long way to go.
Lauren Layne – My Overdue Defense of the Romance Genre
C C Cedras
K R Brorman
S A Young