Dangerous men & adventurous women: romance writers on the appeal of the romance by Jayne Ann Krentz

Author:Jayne Ann Krentz [Krentz, Jayne Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance
ISBN: 9780812214116
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1992-12-01T21:23:43.376000+00:00

Love Conquers All

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On the heels of Eden's thought came another, a realization as unflinching as winter itself.

Don't kid yourself. You're going into this with your eyes wide open or you're not going at all. Nevada isn't waiting for spring. He probably doesn't even believe spring exists. That's quite a difference.

It's a difference that could break my heart. 4

The risk of love's defeat is real. The characters know it, the author knows it, and the readers certainly know it. In fact, they demand it. The readers want the heroine to be put through merry hell, for only in that way is the strength of love ultimately affirmed.

Nor is the heroine alone in her travails. The hero as well must have his time of realization, when he understands what his refusal to love has cost.

The course of true love must run as rough as a mountain cascade, for it is the steepness of the grade that brings out the seething power and beauty hidden within still water.

Romance readers know that cruelty, defeat, and despair are a part of life. But romance readers also know that there is more to life than mean, narrow, ugly, nasty, brutish, and short. They believe in the power of love between a man and a woman, love that heals and enhances life. They want to read fiction that speaks to this deeply held belief.

Inevitably, they read romances. For this, they are routinely ridiculed in a manner that would be considered repellent were it applied to race, religion, or sexual preference. Women keep reading romances anyway, for these novels allow them to affirm and to celebrate their deeply held beliefs about woman, man, and love.

I share with my readers an abiding belief in the beauty and constructive power of love between a man and a woman. Giving flesh and blood, face and voice to that belief is one of the greatest pleasures of my varied career as an author.

NOTES

1. Elizabeth Lowell, Summer Games, to be published by Avon.

2. Elizabeth Lowell, A Woman Without Lies, to be published by Avon.

3. Elizabeth Lowell, Warrior, Silhouette Books, April 1991.

4. Ibid.

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