http://www.oliviawaite.com/blog/2012/05/writing-while-female-romance-and-the-vitality-of-literary-culture/ Romance author, inquisitive mind, and hedonist-about-town Sat, 27 Apr 2013 06:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.oliviawaite.com/blog/2012/05/writing-while-female-romance-and-the-vitality-of-literary-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-2676 Sometimes I Hate Being Right - Olivia Waite Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:56:13 +0000 http://www.oliviawaite.com/blog/?p=2297#comment-2676 [...] week, I wrote about women and romance in literary culture and included the following paragraph: The current startling popularity of the Book That Shall Not [...]

]]> http://www.oliviawaite.com/blog/2012/05/writing-while-female-romance-and-the-vitality-of-literary-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-2644 Olivia Thu, 31 May 2012 18:53:32 +0000 http://www.oliviawaite.com/blog/?p=2297#comment-2644 There was definitely a lot of blowback over the Da Vinci Code, but a lot of it engaged with his premise or attacked the author’s craft rather than making blanket statements about the fans. Certainly there’s no collective term for Dan Brown’s fans that equals “Twi-hards.”

]]> http://www.oliviawaite.com/blog/2012/05/writing-while-female-romance-and-the-vitality-of-literary-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-2639 Maverynthia Thu, 31 May 2012 03:18:02 +0000 http://www.oliviawaite.com/blog/?p=2297#comment-2639 You know thinking about it. Has there ever been a book written by a man that has received as much hate as Twilight has? I think the only reason it’s received so much hate is that it’s 1. Romance and 2. written by a woman.

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