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Post by pim on Mar 11, 2013 17:20:00 GMT 10
Boyce and Mills are authorities on the subject matter Boyce and Mills? Mills and Boyce? Or should that be Mills & Boon? What's this about Mills & Boon? Aren't they associated with escapist literature for women? What are known as "love stories"? So much so in fact that their names have become associated with the genre? An insider's guide to writing for Mills & BoonThree of the publisher's most successful authors sweep Alison Flood off her feet for an impassioned journey through the tempestuous challenges of writing romance 'Mills & Boon want the title to reflect exactly what's in the book' ... detail from the cover of The Italian Duke's Virgin Mistress by Penny Jordan.The Wealthy Greek's Contract Wife. The Prince's Chambermaid. The Italian Billionaire's Secretary Mistress. Mentioning the titles of Penny Jordan and Sharon Kendrick's latest novels for Mills & Boon draws embarrassed chuckles from both of them.
"Titles are contentious, I tell you," says Kendrick. "[Mills & Boon] want the title to reflect exactly what's in the book" – the subtext being that the authors might prefer something a little more subtle. "I never bother about the title," agrees Jordan. "When I buy books I buy by author. But Harlequin must know how to run their business."
In Kendrick's and Jordan's cases, they clearly do. Jordan is the acknowledged queen of Mills & Boon. She's been writing for the publisher since 1981, has produced more than 170 novels and sold more than 70m books around the world. Kendrick, meanwhile, has just delivered her 75th book. That's 75 heroes, 75 heroines, 75 all-consuming love affairs and an estimated 150 sweaty sex scenes – Mills & Boon couples usually do it at least twice in the course of their 55,000-word romances. How, exactly, do these authors keep it up?.... and so on ... You should try writing in the Mills & Boon style, Buzz!
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Post by caskur on Mar 11, 2013 18:23:38 GMT 10
meltdown, 1,363,879...
he must have his period.... I prescribe, - eat a bock of chocolate and read a Mills and Boons. I recommend "Flame of Diablo" and "Montana Man" they were the best Mills and Boons, ever. All the rest are pretty lame though.
Pim... there is no way on this planet Buzz could write a love story. He just doesn't have it in him.... a B Grade porn script... that would be about it!
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Post by jody on Mar 11, 2013 18:27:27 GMT 10
lol...I am very proud of the fact I have never read a Mills & Boon. My mother used to like them though.
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Post by caskur on Mar 11, 2013 19:01:53 GMT 10
They aren't very good.... except the ones I have named. I read a whole box of them from the op shop a couple of times.
the best books I have read are Gone With the Wind... Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre.. they pretty much have no equals imo.
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Post by caskur on Mar 11, 2013 20:45:57 GMT 10
meltdown, 1,363,879... he must have his period.... I prescribe, - eat a bock of chocolate and read a Mills and Boons. I recommend "Flame of Diablo" and "Montana Man" they were the best Mills and Boons, ever. All the rest are pretty lame though. Pim... there is no way on this planet Buzz could write a love story. He just doesn't have it in him.... a B Grade porn script... that would be about it! I have a vocabulary of 30,000 words and I can write anything I put my mind to - Please...someone pick me up off the floor... I'm laughing so much I've found my self on it!
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Post by caskur on Mar 11, 2013 21:01:15 GMT 10
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 12, 2013 9:31:22 GMT 10
meltdown, 1,363,879... he must have his period.... I prescribe, - eat a bock of chocolate and read a Mills and Boons. I recommend "Flame of Diablo" and "Montana Man" they were the best Mills and Boons, ever. All the rest are pretty lame though. Pim... there is no way on this planet Buzz could write a love story. He just doesn't have it in him.... a B Grade porn script... that would be about it! constant abuse, constand devaluation and constant invalidation. I have a vocabulary of 30,000 words and I can write anything I put my mind to - and some people actually like what I write. But all you can do is put downs and humiliations and harassment and abuse. Narcissist and a waste of everyone's time is what you are for sure and certain. You can tell that because all you do is Character Assassination and that is only ever done by a Narcissist. Enjoy your temper tantrum diaper baby? I'm sure you could lay a multitude of sins at the feet of your defensive impulse. (e.g. "It's not me, it's those guys!") After all, blaming others allows you to a convenient avenue to shirk your ethical responsibility. But could it be that the reason you take so much heat, is because you are generally a pretentious arsehole? And your behavior tends to be a bit abrasive/argumentative/ balky/ stubborn? Just consider it. Before you follow your natural impulse, and post out of defensive outrage.. Please, just take a day or so to consider it. Reflect on your past actions, and how others might perceive them.
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Post by pim on Mar 12, 2013 9:37:54 GMT 10
Did Dib really type "arsehole" instead of the Am/E "asshole"? Hallelujah! ;D The Australianisation of Dib proceeds apace ...
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 12, 2013 10:01:38 GMT 10
Did Dib really type "arsehole" instead of the Am/E "asshole"? Hallelujah! ;D The Australianisation of Dib proceeds apace ... I did it for the sake of decorum, pim. Don't get used to it. ;D
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 12, 2013 10:12:36 GMT 10
I wouldn't need to. You already know what you are. That's why you get angry about it.
If you called me that, it'd be water off a duck's back, because I don't get upset over nonsense things.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 12, 2013 10:14:54 GMT 10
And you express yourself with violence? Wow. How 'evolved' you must be.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 12, 2013 10:49:04 GMT 10
who said anything about violence. Not me - not one single word. But if you want to speak to people like that face-to-face, you at least show you have courage and something by way of guts to say that in person. But Judaism is a corruption of Zoroastrianism and thats and end to it - so I leave you to your mental illness and cowardly character assassination Zombie boy. I would tell you to go f*** yourself, but as a Narcissist you will do a good job of that anyway. Because you see Zombie boy, Character Assassination is a suicide mission. It is only ever done by Narcissists and it always catches up with them one way or another. “Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.” Ralph Waldo Emerson The first person being destroyed in a character assassination attack is the assassin himself. He’s just not aware of it. Bad-mouthing is a suicide mission: it destroys the source of criticism in the process rather than the one being criticized. You will never change - you will always be a narcissist and people will see that and avoid you. It was implied in " Words cannot express" , I expect you weren't inviting me for tea and crumpets.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 12, 2013 10:53:02 GMT 10
But if you want to speak to people like that face-to-face, you at least show you have courage and something by way of guts to say that in person. I would gladly take you up on your offer if I felt it would accomplish anything. But I doubt my words would have any impact, since you don't seem to consider anything anyone has to say about you, here. So, I guess the most basic question is: What's in it for me? Nothing.
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Post by caskur on Mar 12, 2013 14:59:31 GMT 10
Character Assassination is a bad thing, and only done by Narcissists. That photograph is a classic example. You really are a sick and twisted person. Native animal murderer? You really are deluded and one sick puppy. You are a Narcissist, and they / you are dreadful people. So now you're denying murdering poor helpless native animals from national parks?
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Post by caskur on Mar 12, 2013 15:06:54 GMT 10
hardly "my" theory - it is the opinion of experts Experts can be wrong, and often are. I studied Architecture in art history at college. Mesopotamia records the earliest man made structures. It is where civilization started.
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Post by caskur on Mar 12, 2013 18:35:50 GMT 10
I witnessed you returning from a hunt with a wallaby... so blow smoke up someone eles arse.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 13, 2013 8:57:05 GMT 10
How many have been "narcissist Pretty much anyone who doesn't agree with him. Unfortunately, he doesn't grasp this irony; but I'm certain every one else does.
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