Comments on: Review: Beyond His Control, by Stephanie Tyler

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:40:15 +0000

@ Laura Vivanco:
Well, you get what you pay for, don’t you?

By: Laura Vivanco

Laura Vivanco — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:31:50 +0000

Hunter also referred to the heroine as “Eva” (not Ava) several times, which I thought was the equivalent of really bad typos in a print romance — and should have been fixed.

You’ve done something rather similar here with the hero:

“Jake and Ava had a friendship and strong mutual attraction as teens”

“Ava has to flee her home with Jake as her bodyguard”

“a lot of dialogue as Jake and Ava work through their issues”

“I also liked it that Ava and Justin confronted some of the issues”

“Ava and Justin had the same argument one too many times”

“I was surprised Justin did not seek a psych evaluation.”

“nothing whatsoever distinguished Ava from Callie or Justin from Turk”

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:24:55 +0000

@ Sarah Frantz:
I love Dangerous Liaisons. And I loved that scene.

@ Jill Sorenson:Ok, now I am working on a new post “A Marxist Feminist Analysis of Author Autonomy and Alienation in the Romance Genre.”

By: Sarah Frantz

Sarah Frantz — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:12:53 +0000

Okay, that title just totally makes me think of “Dangerous Liaisons,” with John Malkovich parroting Glenn Close’s “beyond my control” to destroy Michelle Pfeiffer. Don’t think I could read the book–I’d just have his voice in my head the whole time (not a bad thing, though. Hmm.).

And no, no one gets to pick their own titles, but especially not series/category authors.

By: Jill Sorenson

Jill Sorenson — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:33:06 +0000

(Do authors of series romance get to pick their own titles?)

From my experience, authors have very little/no say in titles, covers, blurbs, etc. And not just in category.