We love our romantic heroes, both on the page and onscreen. But what would it be like to truly live with one in real life… during a pandemic?
To All Those Thinking of Living With a Romantic Hero in a Pandemic…
Tag: romance genre
Why Brexit and Trump Mean Big Romance is Due a Comeback
The popularity of certain types of fiction waxes and wanes with economic cycles. This is because readers are human, and want to escape their reality. But if romantic fiction is the ultimate escapism, why isn’t it more popular at the moment? As usual, I have a theory about this, and I’m not afraid to use it…
Why You Should Never Live With A Romantic Hero
Romantic heroes. Sigh. All that tortured power in a designer shirt. So much angst and wealth. So little practicality, and mental health. Because they’ve been hurt before – y’know? But you would never do that. It’s different with you.
But what really happens after ‘The End’? When dietary fibre and la vie quotidienne get in the way? What would it really be like to LIVE with a tortured romantic hero?
Other Humans Are Just Different Genres, Labelled Badly
Imagine that you are a writer of romance. Sometimes steamy, sometimes so heart-breaking that grown men in their forties have scowled at you on the street. Then, imagine that all the people who don’t regularly buy books – which, in case you don’t know, is a far larger number than the book-buying public – think…
I Hate Women’s Fiction And I’ll Tell You Why
If Colm Toibín’s Brooklyn had been written by a woman, would it have been a smash hit? Would anyone have cared one whit for a story about a young woman and her domestic struggles, if that young woman had been created and written by another woman? No. They wouldn’t.
Tara Sparling writes 