In the Venetians Bed (Mills & Boon Modern)

In the Venetian's Bed (Modern Romance) [Susan Stephens] on leondumoulin.nl Paperback; Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon; New Ed edition (July 7, ).
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The circumstances of gondolier recognising a sick child whereas a switched-on mother didn't, simply didn't gel. Interesting, the project comes from her terrible time at H's cold clinical handling over daughter's medical trauma Although I must admit, one good scene is where H is absolutely shocked when h tells him he has no people skills. V funny and to be fair, he does start to look at himself and how others might perceive him. Not that bad, but certainly not great. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful.

Two masked strangers in the grip of pure, irresistible passion Nell is helpless to resist his brand of raw: Until they meet again in Venice one Carnival night-not as Luca and Nell, but as two masked strangers in the grip of pure, irresistible attraction, untainted by the past But what will happen when their masks are removed? Also the back cover text is a little misleading There's a problem loading this menu right now.

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I don't read 50 current books. And I realise I hate the characters. I call it Abducted by Reality. The men are appalling. They are always saying things like, "You are a stupid little fool!

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So I decide to talk to some. One of them says she has five university degrees. You escape to another place and another world. I am now a little chastened. So I sit down to write. But I find I can't do the sample chapter and synopsis. I know I am supposed to write about a believable heroine falling in love with a believable hero and having a believable happy ending. This is what the experts have told me; this is what the readers expect.

But, to my surprise, I simply cannot do it. I can't even begin to write a woman I like enough to give a lover to.

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Begin with myself, you say? There is nothing heroic about me. I am bilious and I smoke. Ready to become a book-a-month girl? A woman who does not believe herself loveable enough to write a hero for?

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So I borrow a pair of cliches and swim into pastiche. I write a prim, virginal heroine. Her name is Lucy and she grew up in a mining town. Her chain-smoking mother worked nights at a toy factory to send her to private school. Lucy works for the Guardian, where she dreams of being taken off the dressing-up-as-a-fairy-for-Glastonbury rota, "and given a shot at a real story!

Either way, I hate her. And my hero is just a prat. He is called Darcy and he is a billionaire media tycoon. He hates women because his mother died of a diabetic fit, when he was supposed to be looking after her. But he went out riding instead. Once I have Lucy and Darcy, I begin to write a ridiculously hackneyed plot in which my cliches get on and off aeroplanes and my cliches have sex and my cliches cry and my cliches get drunk and roll about on the floor, moaning and saying things like, "I always believed in you.

I am pleased with myself when I have finished. I am particularly pleased that at the end Darcy buys Lucy the Guardian and she installs herself as editor, with a pro-shoes agenda. I cannot believe this. It didn't convince me. I decide they said they loved it because I am a journalist.

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I need a second opinion for my manuscript. Michelle is revered in romance fiction circles for her blunt advice. The next day, I telephone her. She speaks in a low American accent; she sounds hesitant. Or they don't tell you in a way you can understand. I don't think you even like him. How can the reader fall in love with him if you don't? Your heroine is too damaged. She went to Cambridge and never had a boyfriend?

This is called The Heroine Problem. It is much harder to write the heroine than the hero, apparently, because she has to be bland enough not to offend millions of readers and interesting enough not to offend millions of readers. They essentially have to facilitate a sexual encounter between two other people — the reader, and the hero. They are the third person in the romance. And my heroine is mental. She ends up with a Nobel prize for literature?

What has that to do with how she has grown as a person? You need to assume the reader is intelligent. Readers buy these books when they are waiting for chemotherapy or are housebound, or finding out their husband has left. You have to respect them. Well, actually, it is incredibly difficult. I couldn't do it.