WELCOME TO
RWA/NYC’s HAPPY ENDINGS BLOG TOUR!
June being
the month of Brides,
we thought
it apropos to talk about Happy Endings.
Visit us
daily this week and learn what some of our members think about the much sought
after and often elusive “Happy Ever After.”
Life
is not a box of chocolates, and, unfortunately, marriages don’t always end with
a Happily Ever After. I’ve learned to live with that reality thanks to
romance novels.
I’ve
been reading romances for over 20 years and I am not ashamed to say it or to
show off those book covers. (How I miss Fabio!) My love of romance
novels and The Happy Ending started in high school. My friend Joanne and
I would sit in the back row of Economics class and open these huge tall books
in front of us. No one knew that we were really reading Barbara Cartland
romances.
Barbara
Cartland’s were my first romances. They were sweet and all about
princesses and princes, who found each other and got married and lived Happily
Ever After. —Cue sigh— By college, I had graduated to Kathleen
Woodawiss’, Johanna Lindsey’s and Rosemary Rodgers’ romances. These were
more adult, more adventurous, even more violent romances but still with that
wonderfully guaranteed Happy Ever After.
And
that is the key to why the Romance Industry is a billion dollar industry, why
romances sell by the millions even in a down-turned economy – the guaranteed
Happy Ending
A
Happy Ending is the dream of every girl, every woman. And it is a
bestselling dream that lasts a lifetime. Oh, we grow up and we know the
dream probably/ mostly will never come true, but who cares. The dream and
the wish will become more of an escape into the impossible, but that won’t stop
romance readers.
We
want our guaranteed Happy Ending and we want it now, whether one is immersed in
the mores of Regency England, fighting pirates off the coast of Barbados,
shifting from human to wolf in San Francisco, traveling faster than the speed
of light on planet Pluto, or ice skating in Central Park.
And
if in the course of our reading, we stumble upon hot, erotic romances where the
intent is more of a Happy Right Now, we’ll take it. After all, Happy
Right Now is just around the corner from Happily Ever After. —Cue grin—
Besides, today’s modern, liberated woman, living in the 21st century
can have both. So bring on the HEA and the HRN. We’re ready to
read!♥
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Maria Ferrer is an avid romance reader.
She has been known to devour 3-5 romance in one sitting if the mood is
right. Maria is working on her own romance novels. You can read
excerpts from her novels a www.marializaferrer.blogspot.com and www.mydelcarmen.com.
What a fun post. I'll take HRN.
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