Sep 28 2010
Note: I know this is a bit long, but it’s already a drastically shortened version of this argument. Consent at your own risk. When I first started reading Romance, I was stunned by the genre's apparent comfort with sexual force against female characters and uncomfortable with both the contention that it's pure fantasy and therefore [...]
Oct 31 2009
Dear Ms. Campbell: I read your controversial debut and while I appreciated the chances you took, it didn’t inspire me to read your other books. When Captive of Sin arrived on my doorstep, I thought I would give the book a chance. Sir Gideon Trevithick finds a woman cowering in the stable where his horse is [...]
Dec 21 2007
Dear Ms. Campbell: I realized reading your new release Untouched that for me your books are fundamentally a revisiting of older Romance motifs, with both retro and current elements. At your best, your work brings out the best of both past and present Romances, because you are often examining some of the more provocative elements [...]
May 9 2007
Dear Ms. Campbell, Much has been said about your debut, Claiming the Courtesan. Arguments raced round and round the blogosphere; discussions sprouted from here to Jennifer Crusie's blog. After reading comments from people who reviled the book to comments from people who adored it, I decided to read it and see for myself what the [...]
Mar 30 2007
Readers were arguing about Anna Campbell's debut, Claiming the Courtesan, before it was published. An Avon historical that was actually offending readers? This I had to see. And as I sat down to read, I expected to be shocked, looked forward to it, even, because I was really craving a book that shook up my [...]
Mar 30 2007
I was a bit flummoxed to read a post on columnist, Michelle Buonfiglio’s blog today. there is a scene that could be read by the uninitiated romance fiction reader as flat-out rape. That is the line from the post entitled “You Know She Wanted It”. The post itself is about controversial debut book by Anna [...]
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