Inside Bay Area ran a very positive article about romance, based in part on interviews of Nora Roberts and Jill Limber during the Romance Writers of America conference.
ROMANCE NOVELS have evolved over the years from straight "bodice-rippers" to stories with more independent heroines....
The Romance Writers of America's annual national conference offers 150 or so workshops including everything from writing tips to crime scene forensics....
Presenters explained that a love scene should be used to reveal more about the characters and move the plot forward, and definitely shouldn't be awkward....
Even with all the spicy workshops, the conference was really about serious writing, said Jill Limber, president of the 9,500-member group based in Houston.
I confess I've never read a Patricia Gaffney and I don't know where the line is between romance and women's fiction. Does it matter? It's all ghettoized, so it's noteworthy that the Washington Post reviewed her latest, Mad Dash:
The scene is vividly set, and we actually come to care about these two diametrically opposed veterans of 20 years together....I see that Jane of Dear Author loved Mad Dash and Nora Roberts wrote a glowing guest-review on Amazon. Sounds like the ending is sufficiently satisfying to call it romance :)
Gaffney has a blunt and convincing insight into her characters, particularly the women.... It is easy to get exasperated with Dash.... Some of her interior dialogue reads like a psychology textbook.
Yet, Gaffney's men are no match for her women. Both Andrew and Owen are one-dimensional.... However, there isn't a phony bone in Dash's body, and we definitely want to hang around to see how the pieces finally end up on the matrimonial chessboard.
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