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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
I wasn't trying to disparage books with explicit love scenes, because I do read them too, and am often entertained by them much like a movie love scene in context -but I think its a neat change to have some "tamer" romances. I recall the scene from "Friends" where Phoebe takes a shot at writing a romance novel and the "heaving beasts" and "throbbing pens"
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No problem.
One of the more amusing things I've found in the genres is how sensitive some folks get about the cliches that surround their preferred niches.
For example, one of the better pre-Twilight Urban Fantasy Series, is Tanya Huff' Vickie Nelson novels. (Good mysteries that happen to involve the supernatural, built around the classic movie monsters; vampires, werewolves, mummies, etc) The resident vampire in those novels is 300-plus years old and makes a "living" as a writer of historical romances, whimsically described as bodice-rippers. She ever included a couple samples of the vamp's work.
When the series was adapted to TV as BLOOD TIES (pretty faithfully, too) it ran on LIFETIME, so they switched the vamp's career to...comic book artist. Apparently they figured it would be safer to make fun of a different genre and didn't expect comic book fans to watch LIFETIME. Or maybe they expected them to have a better sense of humor.
