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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: A book you all should read
Message-ID: <2572@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 03:52:37 EST
Article-I.D.: nsc.2572
Posted: Sat Apr  6 03:52:37 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Apr-85 04:09:02 EST
References: <1471@decwrl.UUCP>
Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Organization: The Crystal Cave
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Summary: 

In article <1471@decwrl.UUCP> chabot@amber.DEC (L S Chabot) writes:
>At any rate, even Harlequin Romances are fiction about relationships.   >gag<
>
>[I don't believe I admitted that!  Well, I've suffered so that the rest you
> don't have to!   But to clear my name, I read about 4 in January of 1984: a

There are worse tortures than reading romance novels. Try writing them
someday. For those that don't know, every publishing house has a
'standards' manual that defines what characters should look like, act like,
what chapters to have which actions (actions being defined rather strictly)
happen, number of pages per chapter, etc... Each publishing line is
different, of course. Some sitck to swooning and cooing, others prefer
bodice ripping and sweaty palms. What they are ALL missing  is any
imagination-- they are all minor variations of the same themes. One
stylebook, from a publisher who shall remane namelss, ran 182 pages. This
was for a novel that was to run 350-370 pages. (No, you won't find the name
of chuqui in the publishing ranks.... )

chuq
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:From the closet of anxieties of:                 Chuq Von Rospach
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There is nobody as small as those who refuse to accept the success of others.