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There is more than sour grapes in this charge, but less, perhaps, than the whole story. For romance writers labor under, and romance readers demand, a formula of childlike restrictions and simplicity. Here is how two romance authors, Linda Barlow and Jayne Ann Krentz, jointly define it: "The reader trusts the writer to create and re-create for her a vision of a fictional world that is free of moral ambiguity, a larger-than-life domain in which such ideals as courage, justice, honor, loyalty and love are challenged and upheld." Free of moral ambiguity? So much, then, for Homer...
...eager reader since childhood and an energetic dreamer-up of stories, Roberts decided "to take one of those stories out of my head and write it down." A friend had recently introduced her to romance novels. "So I was gobbling those things up, and I thought, 'I'm going to write one of these. They're easy.'" They were not, it turned out, that easy, and she endured a beginner's run of rejection slips. But she was hooked. "As soon as I started writing, it was like, 'Why didn't I do this before? What have I been waiting...
King is not the first writer to release a book without benefit of paper and print, but he is by far the most famous and commercially powerful. Reader response to this high-profile experiment will be watched eagerly by publishers...
...former editor of FM, I would like to make a general stylistic suggestion for the mag: more first-person pieces. Speaking from a reader's perspective, I'd like to point out that I'm not really interested in the stories; I'm interested in the writers and every embarrassing detail of their Harvard existence. See this letter I? Learn...
...Long-time reader, first-time writer. Wrote tonight on a whim--I can't believe I'm the 15th writer--I never win anything! [screaming] I'd just like to give a shout-out to my homegirls in Currier--what's up ladies!!! [screaming...