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- From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: taboo subjects?
- Date: 27 Jul 92 17:16:39 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- >My agent's response was extremely, EXTREMELY negative. To quote him,
- >"One doesn't write romance novels involving crippled heroines."
-
- Interesting. Arthur Hailey's novel "Overload," published in the late
- 70s, had a quadraplegic love interest for our hero. One may argue how
- romantic it really was -- in between the descriptions of facilities and
- processes (Hailey must be a closet technical writer) our hero cuts a
- swath through California, porking everything that will hold still -- but
- it got published.
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- If you still think it's a good manuscript, you might want to try again.
- Times may have changed, even in the bodice-ripping industry.
-
- Joe "Back to my viewgraphs" Chew
-