Romantic Notes

I hate spending more than $8.00 on a book. What can I say, I am cheap.

I hate when a book is advertised as "276 pages" and it is really "139 pages." I am talking to you, Wild Rose Press.

For someone who wants to be an indie author and who admires indie authors, I am very hesitant to step into that world.

Ebook publishers need to work harder on their covers. I mean, the future is in computer graphics. Please, step up to the plate here!

I do not want to waste my time reading a poorly edited book. Ever.

Don’t you hate when you read a summary and the book sounds amazing? I am talking about those times when the potential novel is only 13 pages long.

One of my biggest pet peeves (literally!): Animals playing an integral part in a romance.

I hate cougar novels. I don't want to see an older woman with a younger man. (The vice-versa is equally true.)

One time I took a chick lit book out of the library and thought it was a romance novel. It was early in the century and I was young and impressionable. To say that I was scarred for life is a bit of an understatement.

I have been known to detest a book based solely on the hero or heroine’s name.

I hate when people claim that a romance novel is predictable. I mean, you do know what the genre implies, right?

It took me three years to figure out what HEA actually meant. I knew it referred to the end of the book, but still . . .

An author should not be allowed to tease an upcoming book or specific storyline if they are not planning on writing it. It is 100% worse when the author takes a year off and then changes her name just to get away from having to follow through with the original plan. :::cough::: Geralyn Dawson/Emily March! :::cough:::

I like a series that has cohesive covers. I am not a fan when publishers change them midway through. (even when the change them for the better, like Rachel Gibson’s Writer Friends)

Shirtless men make me blush.