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I love them! For pure escapism, you just can’t beat a good Purple Passion trash novel. It’s the same two characters in every book, they’ll be in a 10th century English castle in one and on the prairies of Civil War era Kansas in another. She’s a hightempered beauty with way too much cleavage, and he’s a handsome loner with a dark past. They hate each other when they meet(one chapter) and fight to control the flaming passion that consumes them (the bulk of the chapters) until they succumb to the cascading emotions of desire (the juicy parts) and together, save the day or the castle or the wagon train.

I have three sisters, we are all total junkies for this genre. We’ve tried our hand at writing one of these supermarket lust books, but we can’t take it seriously enough to make it past the first chapter. It’s a good way to pass the time at the beach, and we’ve been doing it for years.

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The first “grown-up” book I remember reading was “Captive Bride” by Johanna Lindsey.

The next was “Sweet Love, Bitter Love” by (I think) Anna James.

And then I discovered the mother of all bodice-rippin’ authors . . . Kathleen Woodiwiss.

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We’ve tried our hand at writing one of these supermarket lust books, but we can’t take it seriously enough to make it past the first chapter.

Y'all need to try NaNoWriMo, "National Novel Writing Month". I believe it's in November. Some of the folks in the Hobbit Hole do it every year.