Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Romance Plus by K. C. Maguire #FMBBB
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Today I am turning Full Moon Bites over to K. C. Maguire, author of to talk about Romance! :)
Who doesn’t love to curl up by the fire with a good
romance? And there are some great ones
out there. Many of the best romance
authors also add a little something to the plot, taking their hero and heroine
away from the bounds of everyday life and placing them somewhere different. It might be a fantasy world populated by
demons, sorcerers and witches, or a society on another planet. Or it may be our world with a few added
wrinkles, like time travel, weird scientific advances, or underworld creatures
making their way above ground.
When an author mixes romance with mystery, suspense, horror,
fantasy, or science fiction, the possibilities for conflict between the
star-crossed lovers abound. More and
more genres that might be described as “romance plus” are being written all the
time. Before the Fifty Shades of Grey and Bared
to You trilogies, who would have thought erotica could also be described as
“romantic” in the more traditional sense?
Not to mention those who mix romance with pure or urban fantasy or
science fiction, such as Kresley Cole, Gena Showalter, Kelley Armstrong, Kim
Harrison and Patricia Briggs. New
authors are entering the “romance plus” arena all the time. Just think of Diana Rowland with her demons
and her zombies.
When I started my own journey as an author, I didn’t realize
I was writing romance at all, because what I was actually doing was creating
“romance plus” stories. I had story ideas
involving a hero and heroine who were attracted to each other despite some
gaping chasm between them. In some
cases, the chasm was the result of everyday life, but in others it was
the result of some weird flight of fancy on my part. My first two stories – Dear John and Destiny – were, much to my own surprise, classified by the publisher as romances. Having at first scratched my head about this categorization, I realized that in fact I was writing romance. But it was romance plus something else, the something else being my original story idea which tended to be a mystery or fantasy that simply happened to have a hero and heroine thrown together in unusual circumstances.
the result of some weird flight of fancy on my part. My first two stories – Dear John and Destiny – were, much to my own surprise, classified by the publisher as romances. Having at first scratched my head about this categorization, I realized that in fact I was writing romance. But it was romance plus something else, the something else being my original story idea which tended to be a mystery or fantasy that simply happened to have a hero and heroine thrown together in unusual circumstances.
Dear John (Books to
Go Now, 2012) is the story of a female postal worker who accidentally becomes
embroiled in mob activities when delivering mail to a mysterious Gothic mansion. Destiny
(forthcoming, Books to Go Now, 2012) is set in a hypothetical future where
robots become more human and humans become more robotic, augmented by science
to be immortal. When a man and his
android fall in love, they – and hopefully the reader –question what it means
to be truly human.
What do I take away from the surprising realization that
despite my conscious efforts to write mystery and science fiction I am, in
fact, writing romance? I love it. After all, it is only by examining the human
heart and all its foibles that we can discover what makes us truly human. If readers can relate to our characters
through familiar experiences of love and loss, they can immerse themselves fully
in our stories. And the stories are fun
to write too. I’m not sure if I’ll ever
call myself a romance writer, but I know that whatever I write will have love
and heart, and hopefully my readers will want to share the journey with my
characters.

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Kelly Gilbert must choose between her life as a postal worker trapped in a dead end job to pay off her college debt, and a life of adventure and excitement with a mysterious man who may be hazardous to her health.
Kelly has returned to her roots in the Appalachian Mountains while she figures out
what to do with her future. A chance encounter with a stranger living in a
secluded house on her postal route changes everything. Ignoring rumors of his
mob connections, she pursues a friendship with him and is soon embroiled in a
game of life and death where the only way to buy back her life could be by
staging her own death.
Poised to escape to a remote island off the coast of Africa , Kelly must decide
whether her partner in crime is the man of her dreams or a dangerous threat.
Could he be both? And can he be trusted?

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