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I just watched a doku called "Love between the covers". I highly recommend it. I rented it from Amazon.
Would also be a great watch for wanna be romance authors. And folks that like to belittle and look down on romance authors, even authors of other genres.
It has Nora Roberts, Celeste Bradley, Eloisa James and many others in it. Beverly Jenkins story and highlight brought me some tears and so did Radclyffe's.
It touches on some of the things that are often said about romance and those that read and write it.
Many of us might not care what others think about what we are reading. I am one that always carried the old paperbacks around in the open. Was I belittled? All the time. Since I was already bullied and belittled for other things in those days, it was a bit harder to go and just brush it off all the time. It gets weary. I never ever got any comments when carrying around my Stephen King books, not once.
But it isn't just personal circles, its everywhere. Especially in today's world. How many times do I see articles with the dismissive attitude, comments on forums. Even other authors that want to jump on the romance bandwagon.
Not only is it all porn, its so limited, its so formulaic and why the heck does it have to have a boring HEA. Love Story is a romance and darn you all. Its on and on and on. And yes, it all picked up into another nasty gear when 50 shades came out. And I actually enjoyed the book just fine, but it gave new salvo to those snickering idiots again.
Everyone reacts different and we aren't all the same. Someone being able to brush it all off all the time has valid feelings just like those do that sometimes maybe have a harder time to do so. Period.
This doku makes so many good points. I really enjoyed it. Was also nice to see and hear some of the authors stories and why they write and the passion they have.
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