Sincerely, Romance
Romance is serious business.
Romance is revolutionary in its insistence that love is worth fighting for, happy endings aren’t naive, and hope changes us more than fear or cynicism.
I believe in romance deeply. I've believed in it through 40 ghostwritten novels, through a playwright's career, through every time someone has been embarrassed to admit they’re a romance reader or called it a “guilty pleasure”.
Romance, in this space, is sincere and shameless.
Sincerely, Romance
Not every love story is a romance.
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When non-romance readers hear a romance requires a "happy ever after", the overwhelming response is, "nuh-uh!" Then the examples come in...making it clear they don't know the difference between a love story and a romance.
Today on The Romance Room, we'll talk about why not all love stories are romances, why the happily ever after or (happy for now) is integral to the romance genre and...
Well, there's the misogyny element too. Women can't have anything fun, right?
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