Monday, September 05, 2005
Is it just me, or does it seem that new vampire romance authors are taking their sub-genre very seriously? I bought J.R. Ward's new one and am waiting for the library to send me a copy of Susan Squires' The Companion, and of course, I am a HUGE fan of L.A. Banks' Vampire Huntress series. They each have their own histories, vocabularies, powers, etc. Not that I'm complaining of course. I had stopped reading paranormal romantic fiction for a while because it either came off as a clone of BtVS, a clone of Anita Blake, or was just plain sickeningly stupid with the whole "you my life-mate, we live HEA" crap. So I am SO glad that authors like Squires, Banks, Ward,Viehl and a few other paranormal romance/romantic authors are taking the sub-genre back, instead of the regular romance issues+paranormal element that a lot of paranormal romances are.
On a regular note, I was sexually harrassed over the phone by a female customer. It gives me the heebie-jeebies even now. I'm more outraged over the fact that the woman has issues than the fact that she invaded my personal space. It's like, having been assaulted by a predator, but more worried over the fact that they'll assault other people. I'm bold, so I hung up after I realized the woman's conversation had turned from a simple inquiry into the types of items we carried and into perversion. A part of me never wants to answer the phone at work again, but I realize that if I allowed the person to make me fearful, they succeeded in assaulting me and making them feel as though they had some sort of power over others. So next time(hopefully there won't be a next time), I'll just tell the woman straight up that she has issues and she'd better keep them to herself if she doesn't want to go to jail.
I'm letting both of my plots brew over in my mind--the erotic historical mystery and the historical fantasy romance--and am not giving into temptation to do what I usually did in the past when I came up with an idea. It's so odd, but researching before I'm ready to put all my thoughts down on paper actually helps me procrastinate and also is a catalyst for helping me to back away from the goal I set out to accomplish. I can't explain it, but having the books there, causes me to have this sense of being overwhelmed, and then it morphs into a strange type of fear before I just stop moving forward altogether. So I'm not going to do what I did in the past. This is a new day, a new story and definitely a new genre. But I'm feeling relieved and blissfully stress-free.
i can be. anything.
5.9.05
