
Enjoy your trip to the Roaring Twenties!
The latest firestorm in the romance writing world is some bubba named, of all things, Fred Head. He's some yahoo running for office in Texas and his main platform isn't what he's wanting to do, but what his opponent has done in the past. Yes, the woman running against him wrote...GASP a romance novel, or as he put it, pornography. She had one book pubbed 16 years ago, a standard run-of-the-mill romance from what I've seen of it - yet he's announcing that she's going to ruin the morals of Texas' young people. Like young people need any help in that department anyway - heck, an hours worth of a reality show does more damage than a Harlequin ever could. He also claims that she's a glutton for publicity since she had her name printed on the top of every other page of the book. Uh, has this doofus ever read a book? The authors name is ALWAYS printed at the top of every other page. As someone pointed out, even the Bible does that - so does that make Matthew, Mark, Luke and John publicity hogs? I'd like to move to Texas just to vote against him.
Washington DC directed its own jab at romance writers too. http://www.greaterwashington.org/images/metro_ad.pdf
Apparently the people who developed and approved of this ad have no idea that romance novels constitute over 55% of TOTAL books sold - that's ticking off a whole lot of potential people. But, then again, we all know what a bastion of honesty, morality and uprightness Washington DC is in the first place, now don't we? People can be such hypocrits.