Let’s face it folks… I’m in the business of matchmaking. I match makes lots of characters in my books, whether they like it or not. *grin*  And as a reader, I love reading about the couples in my fellow authors’ books.  Take Susan Mallery’s characters for instance. Love ‘em.

Sometimes I come across characters and couples that seem odd to me.  Maybe it’s the match making, the personalities, or… something.

But this… this is just the weirdest set of bed buddies I’ve ever seen. Check it out.

Me!

And I have a paranormal romance (my PR debute) coming out October 13th from Cobblestone Press. Portrait of Seduction… maybe you’ve heard of it?

But can you answer this trivia question?

How did the vampire’s high-collared cape originate?

Remember, I’m currently running an impromptu contest… watch for the answer in an upcoming post.

I was recently directed to this post at Kate Walker’s blog. Very interesting indeed. And made me think about what I consider a romance to be and what my readers consider romance to be. Obviously we all have our own definitions and pet peeves.

I think my big pet peeve is not having a happy ending. If it’s not happy, I’m not satisfied. It’s as simple as that. And that’s just my personal opinion of course. But the HEA is after all why I read romance.

I was talking with a reader in a chatroom the other night and she agreed with me about the HEA and expressed concern that sometimes publishers mark books as Romance when they’re really not. Now there’s lots of “hubbub” about what is and isn’t romance. But to me, as a reader, it’s a love story and it has a happy ending. End of story.

I don’t want to pick up a book, expecting it to be a romance because it’s sold as a romance and then find that the “romance” is a subplot and there is no happy ending. It’s not what I was expecting and I’m going to feel let down, disappointed, and probably a bit irritated about the false advertising. But that’s just my two cents.

What do you think?