Once the little girls finally put away their dolls and plastic tiaras, they turn to makeup, boys, and clothes. Now teenagers, they are no longer content to watch princess cartoons, instead they want to see real-life actors acting out the fairly tales. They think they are above such frivolities of make-believe and dress-up. One thing they don’t do away with, however, is their love for a good romance story. If anything, they cling to dreams of true love and happily ever after even more.Â
All you have to do is look at the recent clamor over Stephenie Meryer’s, Twilight to see that I am right. Teen girls all over the world are frothing at the mouth over the vampire Edward and his human love, Bella. Why? Because it has everything, adversity, true love and a hot, alpha male.Â
While I didn’t have Twilight while I was growing up, I did have my mother’s treasure trove of romance novels. The very first one I read was Shanna by Katleen Woodiwiss. I was instantly hooked and have never turned back.Â
I would love to hear from all the readers and writers out there what their first romance read was. I will pick one comment at random for a free PDF download of one of my books
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Hi Stephanie! Thanks for taking the time to be here on Thanksgiving. I won’t say what my first romance was because I hated it – the heroine was weak, simply reacting to what life threw at her. That was a couple decades ago, and I’m happy to say, the genre has changed. Now heroines are gutsy, pro-active women who turn disaster into triumph while putting their hearts on the line. Exactly like your Archangels! Who could resist that?
The first one I finished was probably a Gothic romance. I tried other ones and found them to be trite and they didn’t have enough ghosts running around. It might have been a comic book called SINISTER HOUSE. No, really, it was a romance. The comic book got renamed SINISTER HOUSE OF LOVE.
Hi Starr and Happy Thanksgiving to you too! You are right about the genre changing so much over the years. The heroines of today are much stronger. I think that makes for such a better read.
ThatBrunette, I will have to try out that comic book, Sinister House of Love.