How NOT to write a romance…
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?
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