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- From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: taboo subjects?
- Message-ID: <24959@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 22:47:26 GMT
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- I wrote:
- >>Interesting. Arthur Hailey's novel "Overload," published in the late
- >>70s, had a quadraplegic love interest for our hero.
-
- Then Suzanne Barrett dashed my hopes for a gold medal in the bosom heave
- by responding:
- >But Joe, Hailey's novel was/is mainstream. Anything goes in mainstream.
- >The romance genre (and PLEASE--not bodice rippers. I hope we've
- >progressed beyond that) has certain criteria...
-
- Well, I guess you can't make an omelet without getting egg on your face.
-
- I still think you ought to maybe shop it around again (assuming that it
- meets the other conventions of the genre, which I plainly don't understand).
- You don't need to convince _all_ romance publishers that the disabled
- are appropriate as characters -- just one.
-
- Good luck,
- --Joe
- "Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
-