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January 20, 2015

Tuesday News: Female road novels, the problem of ‘reliability,’ editors speak, and Tinder’s experiment

JanetPublishing Newschildren's fiction / diversity / editors / gender / general fiction / heroines / publishing / road novels4 Comments

Green Screen: The Lack of Female Road Narratives and Why it Matters – Although this essay by Vanessa Veselka is a couple of years old, with all of the focus on Gamergate and systematized violence against women, I think it’s more relevant now than ever. Viselka talks about her own ... more >

July 31, 2012

Guest Post: Difficult Heroines by Molly O’Keefe

JaneLetters of Opiniongenre critique / heroines37 Comments

  I love the show Girls on HBO. Are you watching this? I’ll spare you the recap, you can read about it here.  But the reason I love this show is the very same reason it’s getting criticised. Every character on the show is selfish in turns. Petty and  self-absorbed  ... more >

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March 6, 2012

Guest Opinion on Shame and the Heroine with Molly O’Keefe and Caitlin Crews

JaneLetters of Opinionheroines / shame45 Comments

I asked Molly O’Keefe and Caitlin Crews if they would share some thoughts on shame and the romance heroine.  The two were obvious choices for me because Crews and O’Keefe both write about the topics in their books.  In the Disgraced Playboy, the heroine’s entire life is shaped by some ... more >

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November 22, 2011

And This Heroine Is Just Right

JaneLetters of Opiniongenre critique / heroines124 Comments

Heroines in romance have great latitude. They can be rich and very poor. They can be successful and a failiure. They can be pretty, dumpy, funny, dour. They are not all extracted from the same hard body mold like the hero. The heroine’s own agency can provide a source of ... more >

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October 25, 2011

GUEST POST: An Essay on Working Heroines

Guest ReviewerLetters of Opinionheroines40 Comments

Like many romance fans, I recently read the newest book by Loretta Chase, Silk Is For Seduction.  Like many fans, I too loved it.  It is a great example of the qualities I look for in a romance: interesting characters, engaging storyline and witty, sometimes startlingly funny, dialogue.  It also ... more >

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August 30, 2011

Guest Opinion from Reader DM: The Defeated Heroine

Guest ReviewerLetters of Opinionheroines92 Comments

Back in April, I had an exchange with poster Liza Lester in response to Janine’s review of Petals and Thorns. Liza wrote: But it occurred to me that if the forced seduction were presented as (rather mild, actually) BDSM erotica, if it were explicitly a game, or limited to a ... more >

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