after-rant guilt
The husband, who is abandoning me for a business trip in balmy Florida (we’re expecting a blizzard here and it’s all Larissa’s fault), has told me that I must play nice in my blog and try not to piss people off. Especially not big published authors.
But that was not my intent at all. The pissing people off part. I was trying to express myself, because that’s what writer’s who have blogs do.
Still, now I feel guilty. (See — I told you I’m not good at the rant stuff.) So here’s the thing. The most important thing that I wish the author I mentioned in my previous post had said in her interview:
I wish she’d said that she loves writing romance, because hey, that many books, she obviously has a passion for it. I wish she’d shared what an amazing genre it is. I wish she’d said it brings happiness and hope and love into so many people’s lives and it’s something she was truly proud of writing.
Would that have been so hard?
Okay, the husband knows I’m still talking about this. Pretend I said something funny and laugh…
Steph T.
January 21st, 2005 at 11:43 pm
Guilt is not allowed. Fabulous post!!
January 21st, 2005 at 11:48 pm
I second that–fantastic post! I lost count of how many great points you made!
January 22nd, 2005 at 6:41 am
Steph, I’m going to agree with all the gals. You’ve made great points! No worries.
Jerri
January 22nd, 2005 at 8:41 am
Great post but to be honest I didn’t take it as hard as you did. Like you, I wish she’d put a more positive spin on it but I thought it was very tongue in cheek and chuckled at her mother’s and coleague’s reactions.
Sadly I doubt she got any say so in the tagline (A Shakespeare professor confesses a terrible secret: She writes romance ?ction, pseudonymously.) which probably set the women’s movement and the romance writing genre back 50 years. =\
January 22nd, 2005 at 9:05 am
I loved your post!
January 22nd, 2005 at 9:20 am
I thought your post was great, even if I didn’t quite agree with it! I did feel, and maybe I’m wrong, that she was saying she doesn’t buy into the shame associated with romance.
(I’ve never read Eloisa James.)
January 22nd, 2005 at 9:59 am
Thanks everyone *g*
*waving hi to Marjorie* I’ve never read her books either.
January 22nd, 2005 at 11:16 am
And Alison - Thank you for the link! (Am HYPERVENTILATING at the title of your post - did I mention the guilt?)
January 22nd, 2005 at 11:13 pm
Steph, I thought it was a great post also. You’re passion for romance novels came through in every word (ie, I didn’t think you were being bitchy.) Like Suzanne, Cece, Jerri I didn’t quite have the same reaction to the article. But I do read EJs books, and I have run across interviews about the ‘mysterious’ Miss James, and it was clear in those articles that she does love the romance industy–reading and writing–and has a great respect for her fans. Just from the lenght of the article, it seems that some heavy ‘editing’ took place. Ya done good, kiddo.