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North American romance writers
- Title
- North American romance writers / edited by Kay Mussell and Johanna Tuñón.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1999.
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| Text | Request in advance | PS374.L6 N67 1999 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 279 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- In this work, Kay Mussell and Johanna Tunon collect essays by contemporary North American romance authors who have come to prominence, directly or indirectly, as a result of the shake-up of the field that started in the early 1980s. In essays on their own work, each of the writers describes her "take" on the romance novel today and how she has adapted the form to accommodate her own voice and concerns.
- Collectively, these writers have used the romance genre to address a broad range of social issues and problems. Presenting these essays together provides a window into the creativity and originality of some of the writers who have shaped romances since the dramatic changes of the early 1980s.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-271) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Kay Mussell -- This I Do for Me / Judith Arnold -- Do It Passionately or Not at All / Mary Balogh -- An Honorable Profession: The Romance Writer and Her Characters / Jo Beverley -- Historical Romance - The Path I've Taken / Loretta Chekani -- The Defense Rests / Sue Civil-Brown -- On Writing, Art, Issues, and Publishing in Spite of It All / Judy Cuevas -- An Act of Faith / Sharon Curtis and Tom Curtis -- From Badge to Books, or "You Wear a Badge and You Write What?" / Justine Dare Davis -- And I Still Write Romance / Eileen Dreyer -- Forget the Fluff / Kathleen Eagle -- Coming Out of the Closet and Locking It Behind Us / Patricia Gaffney -- The Key Formula in Romance: A Woman's Quest / Alison Hart -- Gentle Heroes / Lorraine Heath -- The Contemporary Heroine: A Woman for Our Time / Tami Hoag -- The Joy of Writing / Susan Johnson -- The Heroine as Modern Role Model / Dara Joy -- In Praise of Love and Folly / Lynn Kerstan --
- Telling Tales Out of School / Sandra Kitt -- Pushing the Boundaries: The Challenge of Futuristic, Fantasy, and Paranormal Romance / Susan Krinard -- Everything Old Looks New Again / Jill Marie Landis -- A Working Class Romance / Pamela Morsi -- Heading for a Happy Ending / Maggie Osborne -- The Writer's Journey: Like a Lemming over a Cliff / Mary Jo Putney -- Paradox in Balance / Alicia Rasley -- The Things We've Always Known / Emilie Richards -- Taboo or Not Taboo: That Is the Question / Paula Detmer Riggs -- The Romance of Writing / Nora Roberts -- The Art of Romance Novels / Barbara Samuel -- "I Can Pay the Rent": Money in the Romance Novel / Kathleen Gilles Seidel -- Why I Occasionally Think About Not Writing Romance Any More/Why I Know I'll Continue to Write Romance Until They Pry My Cold Dead Fingers from Around My Keyboard / Jennifer Crusie Smith -- Bibliography / Johanna Tunon.
- ISBN
- 0810836041 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 98044836
- OCLC
- 40126408
- ocm40126408
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries