I wonder if some of this attitude--especially in PNR/UF--comes from mainstream romance which is a highly segmented market which is supposedly full of readers who often only read a scant handful of types of romance and which, historically, has had pretty specific guidelines for what types of stories are appropriate and what kinds of people should be in them. I'm just sort of throwing this idea out there--I could be completely full of it.
I tried to read a HQN Presents a while ago and couldn't because it had a domineering alpha hero who rapes the heroine (the alpha thing is to be expected in a Presents title; I wasn't expecting the rape). And it was published in 2009.
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Date: 2011-04-05 09:08 pm (UTC)I tried to read a HQN Presents a while ago and couldn't because it had a domineering alpha hero who rapes the heroine (the alpha thing is to be expected in a Presents title; I wasn't expecting the rape). And it was published in 2009.