As you may have noticed from the previous shameless promotion, Blueberry Truth isn’t romance. No hot guys, no rip-the-sheets love scenes. Well, Beanie’s husband Mac is wonderful. And kinda sexy. But the book isn’t a romance. It’s women’s fiction, a story of how two people became a family.
Romance and Women’s Fiction are like second cousins. There is a resemblance- the book has a heroine who goes through lots of trail and tribulation to get what she wants and, hopefully, to learn something about herself and be a better person by the end of the story. And there is a love theme; in Blueberry Truth, Mac and Beanie love and fight and love again. But the love story isn’t the central theme, as it is in romance.
The ending, in the case of Blueberry Truth, is a happy one. Just like romance. But women’s fiction doesn’t necessarily need a happy ending. Just a satisfying ending, one where conflict is resolved in one way or another.
I love stories of overcoming personal struggle. Stories where the characters find the hope and fortitude to go forward within themselves. That’s why I read and write women’s fiction.
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