Ambling around the internet this afternoon I found a long article on romance writing.... you will find the whole thing at this link -
Because I want to be able to find it again, I've put the first couple of paragraphs here. I'm also going to suggest you read the whole thing as I am about to do. It begins by comparing writing for both the literary genres and romance
Madeline Iva is
her pen name, and you won’t find a trace of her real-life identity anywhere.
Iva is an
emerging novelist who, as she puts it, writes “lady smut.” Her first
novella was published last year by HarperImpulse, and it
focused on sexsomnia, an actual condition in which people have sex in
their sleep and wake up not remembering anything about it. The story’s
protagonist is a young economist who has the hots for a strapping biologist,
and starts waking up in the morning on the floor wearing different clothes. She
has to solve the mystery of what she’s doing at night—and whom she’s doing it
with.
I met Iva
for the first time in 2013 during a social outing with several other authors.
She told me how much she loves writing smut. She calls romance novels “happiness
machines”—they guarantee that you’ll be happier after reading the novel than
before.
Only later did I discover Iva has
an MFA in creative writing from a top-tier program in the U.S., where she
studied under one of the most respected literary writers today.
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