Come see me talk about Romance!
When people ask me what kind of books I write, I generally answer “nerdy teen chicklit” – which seems the best way to describe Pink and The Not Quite Perfect Boyfriend, and also the two that I’m working on at the moment. Scatterheart is probably historical romance fairy tale YA. And I don’t even know where to begin with Angel Fish. Let’s just say historical fiction.
But that kind of means that I’m also a romance writer*! How strange and exciting!
Next week is the Wheeler Centre’s week of Love & Lust, and I’m speaking on a panel called A Fine Romance: Beyond the Bodice Ripper. It’s chaired by Alan Brough and will also feature Stephanie Laurens, who is one of Australia’s highest-selling authors, and Marion Lennox, who is a Queen of Mills & Boon.
Come along and join in!
The Wheeler Centre Auditorium, 6:15PM – 7:15PM, Tuesday 06 July 2010
Man, I'm glad they don't do covers like this anymore. Look at his bulge! Who would have thought Native Americans were so into spandex!
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*The great thing about YA is that you can write whatever kind of genre or genre-mashup you like, because it’ll always just be YA and nobody will freak out.
Lili, children may read this.
Gosh.
Oh my, yes. Bulge indeed. It’s kind of like one of those magic eye pictures where different shapes and angles come into play depending on how you’re looking at it.
We hasten to add that this session is subtitled “BEYOND the Bodice Ripper” so it’s a broader look at Romance writing and where it has gone. We can promise no bulges at the evening other than those Mr Brough may supply.
He wants to be careful with that Bowie knife so close to that bulge. Not to mention the hot redhead. Not the knife near the hot redhead, but the hot redhead near the… oh, you know what I mean.