Comments on: Heroine-In-A-Box http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/ Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:11:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Amie http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/comment-page-1/#comment-3728 Amie Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:02:10 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/#comment-3728 And Bailey maybe the box is a matter of how you view it (You dont think my heroines are but I do *shrug* ) And Bailey maybe the box is a matter of how you view it (You dont think my heroines are but I do *shrug* )

]]> By: Amie http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/comment-page-1/#comment-3727 Amie Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:01:46 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/#comment-3727 Ya'll are cracking me up. Funny enough, outside of category, I dont see a lot of "traditional" romances... Ya’ll are cracking me up. Funny enough, outside of category, I dont see a lot of “traditional” romances…

]]> By: Raine http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/comment-page-1/#comment-3726 Raine Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:26:54 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/#comment-3726 I wuvs ya right back. :wink: I wuvs ya right back. :wink:

]]> By: Bailey Stewart http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/comment-page-1/#comment-3725 Bailey Stewart Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:19:22 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/#comment-3725 I wuv u I wuv u

]]> By: Raine http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/comment-page-1/#comment-3724 Raine Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:41:09 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/#comment-3724 <i>I’ll go hang myself now …</i> Oh stop that! Your opinion's always welcome here. I understand your point, Bailey, but there'll always be traditional romances. The movie "The Shiek" was made in 1921, and we're still seeing romances of that type. I’ll go hang myself now …

Oh stop that!
Your opinion’s always welcome here.
I understand your point, Bailey, but there’ll always be traditional romances. The movie “The Shiek” was made in 1921, and we’re still seeing romances of that type.

]]> By: Raine http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/comment-page-1/#comment-3723 Raine Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:15:45 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/#comment-3723 Mel...what you said. :waving: Mel…what you said. :waving:

]]> By: Bailey Stewart http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/comment-page-1/#comment-3722 Bailey Stewart Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:15:09 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/#comment-3722 Oh no Melissa, that's not what I was saying - I know what Raine was saying. All I'm saying is that that's the way the publishing world works. One person wrote a paranormal romance, it was successful and suddenly everyone was writing them. The market is getting saturated with them. Now, I don't mind paranormal romances (love Howling), but that's not my usual read. I work in a bookstore and that's all I hear "why can't we find anything besides paranormal" "why is (insert name Heather Graham, Mary Jo Putney, Lori Foster, Kat Martin ...) suddenly writing paranormal - we can't find their other books". I'm afraid that if too many authors are successful writing outside the box, that the publishing world will suddenly jump on it as the "new thing" and there won't be the traditional box that I like. And you're right - then traditional romances would be "outside the box". There can be no 50/50 with the publishing world. The other genres are still there - fantasy, paranormal, chick-lit, general fiction. They have their own boxes. I'll go hang myself now ... Oh no Melissa, that’s not what I was saying – I know what Raine was saying. All I’m saying is that that’s the way the publishing world works. One person wrote a paranormal romance, it was successful and suddenly everyone was writing them. The market is getting saturated with them. Now, I don’t mind paranormal romances (love Howling), but that’s not my usual read. I work in a bookstore and that’s all I hear “why can’t we find anything besides paranormal” “why is (insert name Heather Graham, Mary Jo Putney, Lori Foster, Kat Martin …) suddenly writing paranormal – we can’t find their other books”. I’m afraid that if too many authors are successful writing outside the box, that the publishing world will suddenly jump on it as the “new thing” and there won’t be the traditional box that I like. And you’re right – then traditional romances would be “outside the box”. There can be no 50/50 with the publishing world. The other genres are still there – fantasy, paranormal, chick-lit, general fiction. They have their own boxes.

I’ll go hang myself now …

]]> By: Raine http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/comment-page-1/#comment-3721 Raine Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:14:44 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/#comment-3721 Bailey, there will always be traditional romances. I like them myself. If I didn't, I wouldn't be writing in the genre. I don't believe there's any way romance would go to such extremes that you couldn't find a traditional one. Paranormal romance has skyrocketed, as has erotic romance. They don't replace the traditional stuff, they just offer more VARIETY in characters, settings, sexual exposition, etc. As I said---it doesn't have to be gritty realism, or necessarily too extreme. The heroine doesn't have to be humpbacked. Just something other than the usual vanilla flavoring once in a while. Bailey, there will always be traditional romances. I like them myself. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be writing in the genre.
I don’t believe there’s any way romance would go to such extremes that you couldn’t find a traditional one. Paranormal romance has skyrocketed, as has erotic romance. They don’t replace the traditional stuff, they just offer more VARIETY in characters, settings, sexual exposition, etc.

As I said—it doesn’t have to be gritty realism, or necessarily too extreme. The heroine doesn’t have to be humpbacked. Just something other than the usual vanilla flavoring once in a while.

]]> By: Melissa Blue http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/comment-page-1/#comment-3720 Melissa Blue Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:03:38 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/#comment-3720 Bailey, I think Raine's main point is not that the out-of-the-box heroine should take over, just that there should be more of them. But here's the catch-22 if all the heroines were outside of the box, guess what ? That'll be the new box. <i>It’s THE BOX, I’m tellin’ ya. THE BOX is EVERYWHERE. </i> So true. You can never get out of it. Bailey, I think Raine’s main point is not that the out-of-the-box heroine should take over, just that there should be more of them.

But here’s the catch-22 if all the heroines were outside of the box, guess what ? That’ll be the new box.

It’s THE BOX, I’m tellin’ ya.
THE BOX is EVERYWHERE.

So true. You can never get out of it.

]]> By: Bailey Stewart http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/comment-page-1/#comment-3719 Bailey Stewart Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:51:24 +0000 http://raineweaver.com/secretgarden/2008/01/22/heroine-in-a-box/#comment-3719 Although I lurve Ames' heroines. I don't consider them outside the box. Although I lurve Ames’ heroines. I don’t consider them outside the box.

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