Sunday, January 24th, 2010
i know its suppose to be today on her website but its already 4:15 pm where is it?
Originally planned to be premiered on November 9, "Bad romance" music video has been pushed back to unspecified date. "The ‘Bad Romance’ video is delayed. When you see it – they hope tomorrow – u’ll see Lady G has been working to make it perfect," an announcement from her label Cherrytree Records read. "We don’t rush our artists."
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
I’ve read A Great And Terrible Beauty, and the rest of the series, and I really like books like those. With mystery and romance. But I really like books set in the victorian era, do you know of any?
A Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotsan takes place after WW1
summary:
"After the russian revolution turns her world topsy-turvy, Anna, a young russian countess, has no choice but to flee to england. penniless, Anna hides her aristocratic background and takes a job as servant in the household of the esteemed westerholme family, armed only with an outdated housekeeping manual and sheer determination. Desperate to keep her past a secret, Anna is nearly overwhelmed by her new duties—not to mention her instant attraction to rupert, the handsome earl of westerholme. to make matters worse, rupert appears to be falling for her as well. As their attraction grows stronger, Anna finds it more and more difficult to keep her most dearly held secrets from unraveling. And then there’s the small matter of rupert’s beautiful and nasty fiancée. . . ."
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Sunday, January 10th, 2010
I am wanting to find out how much a trade romance novelist makes for one book, for example a Harlequin.
I know lots of HQ authors who don’t have agents. If you really want to know about how much we make, go to brendahiatt.com. She is a romance author who has compiled a "show me the money" guide and is known for that in Romance Writers of America. (Also a place to check out on the web.) Most make about 5-10 thou a book. Smaller presses mean smaller incomes. Agents can help with better contracts and money. Donna Wright (Riterlady@yahoo.com)
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
does anyone know what the next my chemical romance video will be? if so how?
if you don’t know what song/video is next, what song/video do you think they will do????
i dont think they are gonna make any more videos for the black parade album
they have already released 4 videos for it. thats much more videos than the past two albums. for the three cheers for sweet revenge album the only released 3 and for the i brought you bullets you brought me your love they only released 2. so i think thats about it for music videos of the ablum black parade.
if they would make one i hope its "the end "and kicks into "Dead!" cus those songs should go together.
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
I work at a book store and sometimes I shelve books in the romance section. I noticed that a fair amount of romance books are about a woman getting kidnapped and then falling for her ‘noble’ captor. What is wrong with women that they would find this appealing? Why do some women seem to want to fantasize about suffering from what is basically Stockholm Syndrome? That seems pretty messed up.
I know – it’s really sick!
I remember when I was a young teenager or even a preteen I read one of my (much) older sister’s "historical romances".
It was about some 18th century chick getting locked in a cabin in the mountains for about a month by some older man she didn’t know and didn’t even see because he wore a mask!!!
But somehow it was all okay, because it was part of some amusing peasant ritual.
I had nightmares about it for weeks, and I could never understand how my sister found it romantic.
I still don’t!!!!
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
I know that children’s books is the hardest, but what about romance? Does anyone know the percentage of publications for that? Like how many are new authors, reprints, and publications by previously published authors?
Romance accounts for about 50 percent of all mass market paperback fiction sales, and the genre has made strong inroads into the hardcover and trade paperback markets in the last few years.
You can easily look at a book you don’t like, that was horrible, and think, "If that got published, I can throw together anything and still find a publisher." Don’t count on it. No publisher sets out to publish a weak book, but it just happens sometimes I guess. So it isn’t as easy as writing anything and sending it out there.
Contemporary romances account for the bulk of sales, in large part because most series romance lines are contemporary, but historical romances are extremely popular.
Category romances, also known as series romances, are published on a monthly schedule in groups of about 4 to 6 novels. Like Harlequin Blaze etc. Mainstream romance are the ones that are single titles, like say something Johanna Lindsey would write and publish today. These are placed on bookracks by author’s last name, rather than the series they are published in. These usually have a larger page count, sometimes twice as much as series books. 100,000 words or longer for mainstream, and series range from 50,000 to 100,000 words generally.
But the reason I explain that bit is this. Mainstream is tougher to sell, in part because you don’t have an easy way to define the book in terms of a larger grouping, so it’s harder for editors, marketers, PR people, and sales reps to talk about the novel. Not impossible, but harder.
The rewards of writing single titles can be huge, but it’s a tough market to crack. Far more authors aspire to sell a mainstream than there’s room for in the market, and actually getting published is no guarantee of the kind of success and fame most authors dream of. For every giant advance and printing run, a dozen or more mainstream authors get advances that don’t pay the bills. Most authors’ books don’t get the advertising and PR push to support the big print runs that turn a novel into a bestseller, so luck, as much as talent, often makes a star.
Writing for series has both upsides and downsides, just as writing mainstream does. Category-only writers can never earn the huge advances that some mainstream writers receive, and they rarely star on the national bestseller lists or become household names. On the hother hand, most mainstream authors can only publish one book per year, either because of the time it takes to write a long novel or because most single-title publishers find that one-book-a-year schedule works for them. Plus, series authors can often contribute to several different series. So the advances may be smaller, but several per year, plus royalties, can add up. Every month, publishers put out over 70 original titles in series romances so there is a larger demand for series writing than mainstream. AND (this makes me feel giddy lol) many mainstream authors, including some of the biggest and most successful, got their starts in series. This migration is constant, so publishers constantly need new authors.
I’m sorry that I don’t have any percentages for you but hopefully I gave you a little insight to HOW romances sell. If you decided to give series a try, keep in mind that most publishers have a certain style that the books in that series follows. Like the sensuality level, and word count etc. You can write to the publisher and get ‘tip sheets’ that will tell you what that series requires.
Good luck, I hope this helped!
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
I know not all women read romance novels, I sure don’t, but I want to ask those who do why they like them so much. I don’t necesarrily mean those trashy romance books, I mean romance novels in general.
I don’t read straight romance, but I do read and write books with romantic elements. I also belong to a romance group of 2000+ writers, whom all read romance.
Romance, like some have mentioned and like other genres, is pure entertainment. It has NOTHING to do with whether or not women have romance in their lives. That is falsely incorrect. Reading in general is a way to escape the everyday of one’s life and to live vicariously through others, in a world (in romance’s sake) where love triumphs, the couple overcomes all obstacles and there is always a happily-ever-after. It’s a fantasy, and not one about the hero, but one where love prevails against all odds.
I don’t believe there is such a thing as a "trashy" romance, although there are novels in general that are poorly written–although I don’t believe that is what "trashy" meant. 
Romances with graphic sex and kink are called erotic romances. There is nothing wrong with reading these books. It, too, is a form of entertainment and quite enjoyable.
According to all the women I’ve spoken with, romance is about the fantasy.
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
I wanna watch the "I’m Not Okay (i promise)" music video from My Chemical romance. but you can’t find it in yahoo! music videos. So do you know anywhere else i can watch it? please i wanna see it. i used to watch it on yahoo! music but now i can’t find it there anymore. Can you help?
if you know where to find it can you please give me a direct link there?
thank You
Here you go
http://singingfool.com/default.asp?frame=http://singingfool.com/musicvideo.asp?publishedid=879814
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
I was flipping through my complete works of Shakespeare book and saw that The Tempest was labeled a romance. I read the play and although it seems to have similar characteristics to a comedy (a love story with a planned marraige in act 5) it seems somehow different. I can’t quite put my finger on it though, any information would be greatly appreciated.
You are right. Shakespeare’s plays that were classified as romance, were also classified as tragi-comedies. They contained enough tragic elements (e.g., near deaths and serious themes like betrayal ), which kept them from being considered a full comedy, yet also contained enough comic elements (e.g, a love intrigue and a happy ending) to keep them from being considered a full tragedy. Debora B. Schwartz basically summed it up with the following statement:
"While tragedy emphasizes evil, and comedy minimizes it, romance acknowledges evil — the reality of human suffering."
Dr. Debora B. Schwartz, who is in the English Department at California Polytechnic State University, also gave the following explanation:
"Romance" was not a generic classification in Shakespeare’s time. The modern term "romance" refers to a new kind of play, a hybrid of comic and tragic elements, developed and popularized by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher between 1607 and 1613 (their Philaster, 1609, is typical of the genre). At the end of his theatrical career, Shakespeare wrote four such plays which are now commonly grouped together as the Romances:
— Pericles (1607-1608); not included with SH’s works until F3 (1664)
— Cymbeline (1609-1610); published in F1 as one of the Tragedies
— The Winter’s Tale (1610-1611); published in F1 as one of the Comedies
— The Tempest (1611); published in F1 as one of the Comedies
Presumably, Condell and Heminges grouped Cymbeline with the tragedies and The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest with the comedies because they felt that tragic elements predominated in the former and comic elements in the latter.
Because romances combine both tragic and comic elements, Fletcher called them "tragi-comedies" (a term which he coined in the preface to The Faithful Shepherdess, 1608; see As You Like It background materials for the influence of this play on pastoral comedy). According to Fletcher, a tragi-comedy "wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near it, which is enough to make it no comedy." Like comedy, romance includes a love-intrigue and culminates in a happy ending. Like tragedy, romance has a serious plot-line (betrayals, tyrants, usurpers of thrones) and treats serious themes; it is darker in tone (more serious) than comedy.
You might want to visit the URL to Dr. Schwartz’s Document below for more details on The Tempest and its romance categorization.
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
I want to be "Helena" for Halloween and I love that dress she wears in the video.It doesn’t need to be the exact dress but something similar would be great because I can’t find it anywhere!
I saw a dress that looked very similar to that dress in Hot Topic. You have to wait until it’s around Halloween to find it though.
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