Finding a partner-a true helpmate and lover who sees you and understands you and is willing to travel the path of life with you-is wonderful.Īs a writer, O’Neal hits all the bases. Falling in love is a magical, amazing feeling that I would want everyone in the world to experience. Not just romantic love, of course, but romantic love can be a great and powerful blessing. And she points out that for many people (although not for all of us) the core factor of the form, romantic relationship, is very positive: This informs her appreciation of romance and its place in modern life. O’Neal goes on in her essay to talk about discovering the contentment she finds in small domestic elements of life. Why is it so much more ridiculous or ignorant to read and write romance novels than something like Game of Thrones or the latest gory offering from Patricia Cornwell? Genre novels such as mysteries or science fiction are often dismissed, but they are not often reviled the way romance novels are. She’s accomplished, prolific, fully professional, and worried. Her The Lost Recipe for Happiness from Bantam has had at least eight printings. While I absolutely understand why you might not want to read a genre-I’m never going to read space operas or monster books-I do not understand the continued revilement.Ī six-time winner of the Romance Writers of America’s (RWA) RITA Award for “outstanding published romance novels and novellas,” O’Neal is read in more than 10 countries. Often not just disdained or dismissed, but reviled with an unbridled hatred that oozes and splutters.Īlways among the more articulate author-contributors to Writer Unboxed, Barbara O’Neal took a brave step recently in writing The Perplexing Problem Of Romance there. Romance novels continue to be the most disdained of all genres. IStockphoto / GlobalStock So What Is It? Chopped Liver?
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