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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sad to see so many people complain about poor writing - that has not been my experience at all, except maybe with the self-published stuff on Kindle Unlimited, and I wonder how much romance these PPs have actually read. The traditionally published authors are professional writers with professional editors. A weird number of them are former lawyers.

Try: Grace Burrowes, Courtney Milan, Tessa Dare, Kate Canterbary, Alisha Rai, Helen Hoang, Alyssa Cole, or Sarah MacLean.[/quote]

Plenty of professional writers with professional editors have poor writing. Most books are trash. [/quote]

NP here. Sarah MacLean is a friend. She is incredibly smart and a graduate of both Harvard and Smith. She can write anything, but through romance she has the ability to write a woman-centric story that is both hopeful and empowering.

Lisa Kleypas, graduate of Wellesley, writes beautifully.

Eloisa James. Graduate of Yale and Harvard, and a Shakespearean scholar, married to a Dante scholar.

And as mentioned upstream, many romance authors were lawyers. Julia Quinn was pre-med at Harvard before writing her first romance.

You might not like the genre in general, but don't stereotype based on your preferences in what you read. [/quote]

Some of my absolute favs! Though…Julia Quinn writes [b]some toxic men[/b], IMO.

Historical romance is my Roman Empire. [/quote]

Romance novels exist on a continuum. From the Rape Heroes of the 70s, gradually working their way forward with each generation of authors and readers who are raised to expect something different. An Emily Henry of today has very little in common with a Rosemary Rogers of decades ago. What romance novels do share is women standing up to men and becoming or (more currently) are equal to men. You never would have seen a beta man (actually I can think of one in the early 90s) in most anything before mid 2000s. And definitely no  LGBTQ+ before a few years ago. Diverse, LGBTQ+ and beta are much more on point now.

As to Julia, as I'm sure you've seen, Shonda Rhimes has made the Bridgerton characters diverse and the men less toxic. [/quote]

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