Welcome to the Flames of Desire
Valentine’s Day Blog Hop, from Feb. 5th – 11th!
The Grand Prize Is A Kindle Fire HD 7”!
Winners Need To Be In The US or Canada to Win Items That Need to Be Shipped, But Anyone Can Win an E-Book.
All the prizes on the hop page except the books for the winner’s Kindle will given away daily!
The Power and Appeal of Romance
Romance is the most popular of all fiction genres. Women today are stressed out by modern life. Romance novels are about female empowerment. By the end of the book, the heroine has overcome all obstacles and she even gets the guy. Some men say they don’t like romance because “the woman wins”. I prefer to think that both people win when they form a loving, committed relationship.
Novels help people escape from their problems, even helping them deal with the emotional, even the physical, pain of their lives. When my mother died some year’s ago, I was devastated. For several weeks afterward, it seemed like the only time I wasn’t crying was when I was reading. (Unless I was crying over something that happened in the book.) Reading can be a form of inexpensive stress relief.
Romance also affirms values like love, commitment, bonding and family. The books often end with a proposal, a wedding, or the birth of a child. When you come right down to it, romance is about the survival of the species!
Yet romance gets no respect in the literary world. The books are criticized for being unrealistic. Is it unrealistic to think that young men and women are going to fall in love and marry? If so, we’d better add Homo Sapiens to the endangered species list.
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Linda
A great post. I love the love in novels.
Mary P
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Thanks, Mary. Glad you enjoyed the post.
Congrats Mary P. you just won 4 Bookmarks from NYT Bestselling Author Laura Adrian. YEAH!! I will contact you later through email.
Congratulations, Mary!
Lacey Waters laceyjanewaters@gmail.com Thank you!
You’re welcome, Lacey.
I’ll be mostly off line for a few hours but will check back when I get home.
great post very interested
Thanks for commenting, Trudy.
Name: Anita Hui
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Comment: Reading romance novels is totally my escape from the worries of everyday life. I absolutely disagree that the genre is unrealistic, so many people go through the rituals of dating to fall in love and find a life partner, how is that not mirroring real life? I’m all for the HEAs!
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I completely agree, Anita. Romance is universal and timeless. Thanks for following on Twitter and Facebook.
I would love to win this giveaway!!
Good luck, Angela!
You have won a signed copy of Call to Honor by NYT Bestselling Author Tawny Webber. But I need an email. Congrats!
love a good romance novel, I read a book a day now i have a few authors i enjoy and i enjoyed reading the Lady Elinor’s Escape and also Rogue’s Hostage a bit of historical romance great reads
Thank you so much, Trudy. Your kind words about my books mean more than I can say. We authors often toil in isolation and obscurity and a few kind words from readers can make our day! Or week. Thanks again. So glad you enjoyed the books.