Say it loud: I write romances and I'm proud
New York-AP -- They sold more than a-third of all fiction books and more than half of all the paperback books in America last year. But romance writers are used to getting no respect. More than two-thousand of them have gathered in New York this week for the annual convention of the Romance Writers of America. At lunch yesterday, best-selling author Jennifer Crusie (KROO'-zee) admonished them, "Don't you ever be embarrassed to say you're a romance writer." Crusie says telling love stories touches something basic in human beings.
As a former literary scholar, Crusie knows about embarrassment. She says her old colleagues are split down the middle about her current career. She says, "Half of them are very proud of me. The other half are pretending it never happened."
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