Switching Genre

Someone asked me this weekend which genre I preferred. That took some thinking about – I write romance, romance is what I love – so really I don’t have a preference. But there are huge differences.

Take my latest medieval romance “Dangerous Enchantment” The Lord of the manor has all kinds of ideas about women, none of them very flattering. Well put him in modern clothes and update the story to the 2010’s and he would not work! Out a caring, sharing 2010’s male in a medieval romance and he wouldn’t work either.

Romance is romance and in the end you just hope the couple get together in the end but you have to get the attitudes right. This is the thing that bothers me sometimes. You can have strong women in a medieval romance, think Eleanor of Aquitaine, as a role model, but the men have to be tough too but they can be tamed by their lady loves eventually.

With suspense I like my men to be caring, just as they are in my contemporary romances, but they are less confrontational with the heroine, and really it is more or less an equal partnership. The girls in my suspense novels know how to take care of themselves…and then s

So, no I don’t have a favourite, I love them all in all their challenging differences.

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My first historical romance with Whiskey Creek Press “The Substitute Bride, ” is a finalist in this year’s Eppies which is very exciting for me. Although a medieval romance it is very different from Dangerous Enchantment, which has a story that has “facts” and “opinions” and real historical figures pop up from time to time. The Subsitute Bride is an historical romantic suspense, entirely fictitious, it was a lot of fun to write. I love the medieval period and of course when you are writing a suspense when there is no mobile phones, television or radio, you can really built up the suspense. The characters take a long time to learn the truth of what is happening. It certainly does make things easy, but then again the research needed makes it difficult. LOL. I suppose nothing about creating a novel is easy, but it’s a lot of fun…oh boy, it certainly is.

When Elizabeth Mary takes her sisters place in marriage to Lord Hinchlciffe, she has no idea of the danger she faces.