TheMarySue Casually Smears Romance (REBLOG Heidi Cullinan)

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Heidi Cullinan nails The Mary Sue for a lazy, unresearched, hetero-only smear piece on romance writing. Not sure how I missed it, because it is good reading!

It reminds me all too-vividly of the piece I protested in Canada’s National Post for Valentine’s Day about how surprisingly hard it was to make money writing a romance novel when they’re so cheap and bad:

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Do click through to Heidi’s blog because she has resources and research, plus appendices, all things of beauty. The next time someone insults your readers you know where to go!