Her substantial fortune won’t be divided until the trio return to their childhood home and live together for a year. Be sure to include your email address so I have a way to contact you.īlurb: Sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronson, each in her forties, are in Puffin Bay, ME for their mother’s funeral and to sink their claws into the fortune each expects to inherit. Maybe we should call it “Mature Adult.” Or do we have to put a label on it at all? How about just “good lit?”Ī Giveaway! What name would you give this proposed new genre? I’ll give one commenter an e-book copy of Blame it on the Brontes. Maybe we should call it “Second-Chances Lit.” There’s a new sub-genre now called New Adult. Contrary to the opinion of many, love has no age limit.
They are able to make choices they couldn’t have made ten or twenty years earlier. They’re either empty nesters, newly divorced, or their parents have just passed on. Which means most of my heroines and heroes are in their 40s. You can have a do-over until you’ve done it once and failed.
They screwed up on their first go-round and are anxious to make a better life for themselves. My contemporary heroines are interested in starting over, due to a change in their lives.
In today’s world, women are still having babies when they are well into their 40s-far different from the life cycles of the 1800s. While I appreciate their efforts, I don’t like the titles that are attached to this type of literature. I hate to break it to everyone, but the baby-boomer generation is now reaching the age of retirement. There are a few non-traditional publishing houses who are more willing to take a chance on an out-of-the-box story, but then, these these books suffer with such labels as ‘baby boomer’ novels, or ‘hen lit’. As if love stops being part of a person’s life once they hit 30. But life cycles were much shorter then, and the number of acceptable men was a much smaller pool than it is now.īut why does age matter so much in contemporary romance? Read the submission guidelines from most of the major traditional publishers, and you’ll see they aren’t interested in heroines who are out of their twenties. In the 1800s, if a woman got past the age of 25, she was considered a spinster-past her prime, on the shelf, all of that. A younger heroine and hero in that case, I understand. Historical romances deal with women who are just being introduced into society and beginning to look for husbands. I enjoy reading about two people who are falling in love, regardless of their age (or sex, for that matter). Don’t forget to leave a comment for a chance to win in Becky’s giveaway! I’m delighted to welcome Becky Lower as she introduces her new contemporary romance, Blame It On The Brontes, from Soul Mate Publishing.
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