Elizabeth Grant
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Joyce DiPastena:
Dear Joyce, your Clean Romance group is really intriguing! I've just published my first historical romance, and now I'm wondering if I could add it to your list? There is some innuendo, but nothing explicit. But, while the main romance is heterosexual, the hero's (male) cousin is hopelessly in love with him. Would that be an impediment? Many thanks! Elsie
Joyce DiPastena
Hi Elsie, I thought I'd answered this, then realized last night that I didn't. 🤦🏻♀️
The readers in our Clean Romance group do prefer "traditional" male/female romances. It sounds like the cousin subplot in your story might be something many in the group might not be comfortable with, and therefore might react negatively to. So your book might be more comfortable in another romance group.
The readers in our Clean Romance group do prefer "traditional" male/female romances. It sounds like the cousin subplot in your story might be something many in the group might not be comfortable with, and therefore might react negatively to. So your book might be more comfortable in another romance group.
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John M
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Joyce DiPastena:
Joyce: The Author of "Ginny the Ninny of the First Platoon," Louise Allen Armstrong died July 20, 2016. He memorial was yesterday in Towson Maryland. Among other accomplishments she was recruited early in the war from Bryn Mawr College by Naval Intelligence. She worked through the war with the team that broke the Japanese codes in time for Midway. John Davidson Baltimore MD? She is my daughter-in-law's grandmother.
John M
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Joyce DiPastena:
In relation to my previous message please see your "Songs for a Navy WAVE." ?
Chris Syme
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Joyce DiPastena:
Joyce- Not reaIly a ? but a thanks. I just want to thank you for creating the clean romance group. My daughter writes romantic suspense and it is a hard category to sell romance without sex. They are not inspirational but just clean. I will make use of this group quite a bit as we are struggling to find a market for her books. She writes romantic suspense under Becca Boyd and historical romance under R.L. Syme.
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Apr 27, 2020 09:09AM