Okay. Yesterday I promised to write something about family values. Berkley Homespun novels were supposed to extol family values. The books had to contain at least one child. They had to be sweet (as opposed to erotic) romances. They had to leave the reader feeling good about American culture and, well, values.
So I wrote a couple of proposals. Y'know which one Berkley chose? The one in which the heroine steals a baby and a bunch of money and runs to the New Mexico Territory to her foster brother, an alcoholic who preaches to a town of ex or current criminals who are always getting drunk and shooting each other. His church is the saloon, and his congregation is about as mixed a bag of exiles, drunkards, runaways and/or weak links as you can find anywhere (except maybe downtown L.A.). Diabolito Lindo, the town, is in Lincoln County, in the Sacramento Mountains, where Billy the Kid did his thing a year or so prior to when the book (SWEET CHARITY) starts.
I don't know about you, but those aren't the types of family values I think of when I think of family values.
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love your blogs! keep 'em coming!
Thanks, Sherry!
Alice,
That sounds so typical of romance publishers!
Well, at least you sold them a novel. That says a lot for your talent.
Well...they might be *some* family's values ;) Congrats on the deal!
True, true, Jacquie. And I suppose they might be *some* family's values at that, Jenny :-)
I remember that book! I enjoyed it :)
It also gave me hope that my book with a heroine who steals a baby might have a chance!
Absolutely, Janet! You just never know. The ways of publishing are strange indeed :-)
LOL! You say tomato, I say tomato....
Have a great day, Alice!
xo Mel
Thanks, Mel! You, too.
Of course they chose that one. :-)
Of course :-)
Hi Alice, just wanted to drop by and say hello!
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What the heck! I don't understand any of this :-)
!!! Amazing !!!
Yeah, Sheila. I thought so too :-)
Not surprised at all, really; publishing is so contrary that nothing ever turns out the way that you expect.
Amen, Jean. Publishing is a big, fat muddle. Always has been, always will be, to me at least.
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