http://www.caridad.com/2007/12/02/snowy-sunday-musings/ Caridad is the NY Times and USA TODAY Bestselling Author of Paranormal Romance and Romantic Suspense Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.caridad.com/2007/12/02/snowy-sunday-musings/comment-page-1/#comment-3513 Shelli Stevens Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:06:41 +0000 http://caridad.com/blog/2007/12/02/snowy-sunday-musings/#comment-3513 What a great opportunity! I'm glad you had the chance to talk about some of those stereotypes! What a great opportunity! I’m glad you had the chance to talk about some of those stereotypes!

]]> http://www.caridad.com/2007/12/02/snowy-sunday-musings/comment-page-1/#comment-3512 Caridad Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:10:24 +0000 http://caridad.com/blog/2007/12/02/snowy-sunday-musings/#comment-3512 LOL! Very very true, Irene. Romance brings love and beauty into our lives. LOL! Very very true, Irene. Romance brings love and beauty into our lives.

]]> http://www.caridad.com/2007/12/02/snowy-sunday-musings/comment-page-1/#comment-3511 Irene Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:02:46 +0000 http://caridad.com/blog/2007/12/02/snowy-sunday-musings/#comment-3511 It's never going to go away completely...this idea that romances are trash and those who read them are somewhat lesser beings than those who read so-called literary works. Ah...genre fiction...that goes back to the days of pulp magazines with their green monsters and dead-shot heroes...and the children who read such stories. But, they exist because there is a need for escapist literature. Moby Dick...House of Seven Gables...Childe Roland...all romance, all escapism. Emily Dickinson wrote that the world was "too much with us, late and soon". The news is brutal every single day. Romance is the natural solution to ugliness. Bring on the brawny heroes, the brainy, resourceful heroines! We need a little Happily Ever After in our lives! It’s never going to go away completely…this idea that romances are trash and those who read them are somewhat lesser beings than those who read so-called literary works.
Ah…genre fiction…that goes back to the days of pulp magazines with their green monsters and dead-shot heroes…and the children who read such stories. But, they exist because there is a need for escapist literature. Moby Dick…House of Seven Gables…Childe Roland…all romance, all escapism.
Emily Dickinson wrote that the world was “too much with us, late and soon”. The news is brutal every single day. Romance is the natural solution to ugliness. Bring on the brawny heroes, the brainy, resourceful heroines! We need a little Happily Ever After in our lives!

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