Deb said ((The Christian romance reader does want spunky in terms of heroines,))
This is what i mean, Deb, we're all writing the same snarky, brave, determined, direct, kickass type of girl who has some avocation outside of wife/mother.
I'd like to write about some of the women who WOULD have existed and thrived in male dominated REAL history - the sly, manipulative, clever, but demure ones don't appear in our books because we don't relate to them. Give me a games playing harem girl or the alpha wife in a Chinese home...Machievelli would shudder.
Unlike the rest of the world of fiction, a romance heroine HAS to be someone the average reader likes and can imagine as herself (ie, bella = generic american any girl)
This is what i mean, Deb, we're all writing the same snarky, brave, determined, direct, kickass type of girl who has some avocation outside of wife/mother.
I'd like to write about some of the women who WOULD have existed and thrived in male dominated REAL history - the sly, manipulative, clever, but demure ones don't appear in our books because we don't relate to them. Give me a games playing harem girl or the alpha wife in a Chinese home...Machievelli would shudder.
Unlike the rest of the world of fiction, a romance heroine HAS to be someone the average reader likes and can imagine as herself (ie, bella = generic american any girl)