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AC You are absolutely right, nothing new is created in France, as everything comes from the American market. As an aside, the ebook revolution will certainly change that, but time will tell… Right now, French publishers of course follow the trends of the American market, as the massive attack of the vampires and werewolves proves, but they also select trends they think will appeal to their readership.
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On that one I think they might be wrong, because many French readers who read in English are fans of Suzanne Brockmann. So every new trend in the US is not automatically fed to the French market: SO In fact, even though romantic fiction is an international mass-market product and romance readers of all countries want to escape and fantasize, escapism and fantasy depend on national imagery. Therefore, French publishers only select romance novels that they think will sell Paizis. What do you think of sex in romance novels? AC Well, sex is really an issue in French.
In fact, US romance has become more and more explicit and the sensuality level is often sustained by rather crude expressions or words. These are very difficult to translate into French, because crude words are not often written and give a really vulgar undertone. They sent advanced reading copies to us and we were dumbfounded.
We had a lot of fun reviewing the book, but when I saw the editor on our next meeting in Paris, she was furious. Anyway, this kind of ancient vocabulary was dropped forever and now translators try to use contemporary vocabulary, but it is not easy, and they are often tempted to cut a sex scene or two, because they are such a pain for them. I think sex is more and more present in romance.
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Readers often say that the story is more important to them and complain when there are too many sex scenes and not enough character development, but the fact is that when a novel is not sensual enough, they feel cheated. They have come to expect sensuality in a romance, but it must not overwhelm the characters or the story: Some of them were ex-romance readers. However, in research, and especially in the French academy, romance readers are generally considered to be a single, homogeneous group.
AC I totally agree with you. They often imagine it as small and simple, limited to short novels about boy-meets-girl, as if only Harlequin Presents existed. They are totally unaware of the numerous subgenres that have appeared along the years. We were recently contacted by four Psychology students who were assigned a study by their teacher.
They wanted us to give them three or four books titles that were representative of Harlequin. Our first answer was: Are you aware that there are more than fifteen very different Harlequin lines? They were not, and neither was their teacher apparently. So yes, I think that there are very different novels in the romance genre and thus of course different readers who are looking for very different things. Although there are of course trends, like in anything else. We launched a challenge at the beginning of The idea was to have an objective view of what a typical romance reader read in a year.
Well, after six months, the conclusion was: They read an average of 10 books a month per reader, but beyond this figure lay a great diversity. I would like to point out that these figures match almost exactly what the rest of the French population reads per year, as shown in a poll by the magazine Livre Hebdo: Romance readers tend to read much more than the rest of the population, but there is also a great diversity of reading habits among them. Additionally, all the readers I interviewed said romance novels were safe and easy to read. Some of the readers I interviewed wrote short romance novels.
As a veterinarian, he explained that sometimes an animal suffered so much physical pain that it lost its will to live. He had had some success in those cases by injecting it with a massive, almost lethal, dose of narcotics that made it sleep for several hours. When it awoke, it was able to fight again for its life and hopefully get better.
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To me, romance works a lot like that. I am lucky enough not to experience insufferable pain in my daily life, but from time to time, I become so weary, so exhausted by the day-to-day routine, that I have nothing left with which to fight back, to find new solutions, or even to simply go on.
Those are the times when I feel the urge to scream: I need fiction, and I need it now! After a few hours immersed in a romance where everything goes well, I feel much better and able to cope with anything that comes my way.
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So of course reading romance may seem passive, and as you say I accept this, because I know that it will refill my batteries for many days to come. I think romance readers are rather more active and dynamic people, because the genre is empowering. For example, I hate thrillers, because after reading one I tend to feel terrified at night, looking under my bed to see if there is a serial killer waiting to kill me and my whole family. This does not happen with romance I am sure I will feel happy and confident after reading a good one.
As you mentioned, many of us also write.
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When we first met publishers, they were very surprised by us and they equally surprised us. We realized that they did consider romance readers as passive readers, who would read anything that was put on the shelves for them. They did not realize that we had favorite authors. Most of them were not at all fluent at first; they had only learned English in school and had never spoken or read it for 10 or 20 years. I guess their attitude towards reading is not a passive one….
SO Nonetheless, not all romance readers have this attitude. They would identify with passive heroines awaiting Prince Charming and tamed by a domineering hero Rochman. However, in , Laura Kinsale argued in Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women that readers identify with the hero too.
And the readers I interviewed often identified with both characters. Since what the characters feel is real even if the story is a paranormal story, romance reading is first of all an emotional reading. Could you describe for us your experiences and your feelings when you are reading a romance?
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AC Well, I think there are all kinds of identification processes, depending on the reader. In the s, romance was written solely from her point of view. But personally, I tend to identify more with the heroine and like a book with a good heroine even if the hero is not as well defined or as interesting. As for the danger of identifying with a frail young heroine, I would like to share something that surprised me a lot. Some romance novels have really rough heroes, who might even bully a little the poor heroine. I tend to dislike that kind of novel, I prefer beta heroes, who are man enough not to need to punch their chests to prove it.
But some readers love these big bad alpha males, and to my astonishment, I discovered that those who love them the most tended to be active women, with responsibilities in their jobs and who were pretty much in charge in their professional life as well as in their personal life: I was baffled at first, and then it occurred to me that they probably liked to feel like a frail little thing once in a while, to be taken care of, as a change from their real life, where they had to be strong all the time.
So much for the myth of the debilitating romance novel. SO In fact, the identification process is a complex process, whichever book we read. Although the identification process differs from one reader to another and although readers are different from each other, romance readers nevertheless share some characteristics. When I interviewed some of them, I noticed that, for both old and young, the first romance reading was generally linked to important life experiences like adolescence or retirement.