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Okay, confession time. I had not read much romance when I started writing my WIP. I just wrote what I felt like writing, and I believe what came out is a romance novel, despite attempts to convince me that it is love story or women's fiction or something else.
I've since read a few. Some I liked, some I didn't care for. But nothing has really made me say, "Wow! Amazing!" I think maybe something could, I just don't know how to narrow the search. My selection process has been a combination of liking the cover, liking the title, and it being available on a thrift store shelf. I think this process is about as good as random, and likely to lead me to the most mediocre titles. I want to read the five-star stuff. I could just sort by reviews online and pick the first, but I also want to find something that suits my personal tastes.
I'm not really sure how to describe what those are. Maybe we can home in on them via a dialogue. I don't know what questions to answer; maybe you know what questions to ask.
I can tell you what I don't like. I don't like alpha males. I especially don't like that thing where they act like they hate each other which really means they love each other. (Pulling girls' pigtails should stop at third grade.) I don't like paranormal. I don't like mystery (more to the point, I don't like a story that's almost really another genre, it just happens to star a pair of MCs who are thrust together). I don't like love triangles, though we're getting down to peeves that I'll tolerate. I just think there should be some kind of conflict more original than just a love triangle. I'm not really interested in stuff with a "chick-lit" kind of feel.
I do like historical, although sometimes it annoys me when the characters don't really seem historical, just like modern characters riding around in carriages. I also like contemporary.
Not sure if this is the right place to post.
Thanks.
I've since read a few. Some I liked, some I didn't care for. But nothing has really made me say, "Wow! Amazing!" I think maybe something could, I just don't know how to narrow the search. My selection process has been a combination of liking the cover, liking the title, and it being available on a thrift store shelf. I think this process is about as good as random, and likely to lead me to the most mediocre titles. I want to read the five-star stuff. I could just sort by reviews online and pick the first, but I also want to find something that suits my personal tastes.
I'm not really sure how to describe what those are. Maybe we can home in on them via a dialogue. I don't know what questions to answer; maybe you know what questions to ask.
I can tell you what I don't like. I don't like alpha males. I especially don't like that thing where they act like they hate each other which really means they love each other. (Pulling girls' pigtails should stop at third grade.) I don't like paranormal. I don't like mystery (more to the point, I don't like a story that's almost really another genre, it just happens to star a pair of MCs who are thrust together). I don't like love triangles, though we're getting down to peeves that I'll tolerate. I just think there should be some kind of conflict more original than just a love triangle. I'm not really interested in stuff with a "chick-lit" kind of feel.
I do like historical, although sometimes it annoys me when the characters don't really seem historical, just like modern characters riding around in carriages. I also like contemporary.
Not sure if this is the right place to post.
Thanks.
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