“Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.” HumansBookEarthRomanceWinningNovelDangerousReaderCreaturesFemaleMalesCelebrateKneesGentlenessRomance NovelFemale Power Book:Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Source: Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
“Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one between a woman and a man. They are legends told to women by other women, and they are as powerful and as endlessly fascinating to women as the legends that lie at the heart of all the other genres.” MenHeartStoriesRomanceLyingPowerfulNovelDangerousBraveTalesMysteriousGenreExcitementFascinatingCaptureLegendsRomance NovelTamingDangerous ManBrave Women Book:Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Source: Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
“The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women's heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love.” LoveHeartBookStoriesAgeRomanceValuesBeliefHealingNovelVirtueReaderHonorDeterminationCelebrateGenreHeroicPower Of LoveHeroinesGenre Is Author:Jayne Ann Krentz
“Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down, and don't think readers will, either.” ThinkingRomanceUnderstandingReaderShadowDown AndMaryGiftedIntuitiveSilkGifted Writers Author:Jayne Ann Krentz
“The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.” WorldLongPhilosophyRomanceAttitudeFictionPsychologyModernTheoryNegativeStandingScience FictionSuspenseGenreEtcAcademicExistentialSociologyFascinationNegative AttitudeFallouts Author:Jayne Ann Krentz