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  by Lorraine (Unpublished Author) 3 months ago

  So you meet them, they say they love you, then take over and use you. Some men do that and One tried to do that to me.
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  by Lorraine (Unpublished Author) 3 months ago

  Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Sugar is Sweet, and I Love You. Thats what we use to sing when a Teenager.
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  by Lorraine (Unpublished Author) 3 months ago

  Not long until Valentines Day. Roses, Chocolates, Fine Dining, Proposals, Cards, but none for me again. Though I dont mind. Maybe one year.
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  by Lorraine (Unpublished Author) 4 months ago

  Life is what you make it,sometimes you feel like you have walked down the wrong path? But who knows, we dont make the choices
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  by Jill 4 months ago

  Your Paranormal Romance Story sounds interesting, Lorraine. Best wishes for its successful transformation from a children's story.
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  by Lorraine (Unpublished Author) 4 months ago

  Just Started a Paranormal Romance Story, Changing from my Children's Story. Thought it would be better and my friend said yes, can she have it after I have done it to read so said OK. She will tell me what she thinks because she does read to many romance stories.
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  by Lorraine (Unpublished Author) 4 months ago

  Contemporary romance
  Main article: Contemporary romance
  Contemporary romance, which is set after World War II,[27] is often what people mean when they refer to a romance novel. Contemporary romance novels—the largest sub-genre—are set in the time when they are written, and usually reflect the mores of that time. Heroines in contemporary romances prior to 1970 usually quit working when they marry or have children—while heroines after 1970 usually have, and keep, a career.[28] As contemporary romance novels have grown to contain more complex plotting and more realistic characters, the line between this sub-genre and the genre of women's fiction has blurred.[29]
  Most contemporary romance novels contain elements that date the books. The majority of them eventually become irrelevant to more modern readers and go out of print.[29] Those that survive the test of time, such as Jane Austen's work, are often reclassified as historical romances.[28]
  Over half of the romantic fiction published in the United States in 2004 (1468 out of 2,285 books) were contemporary romance novels.[30] Contemporary romance novels have twice been chosen by Kelly Ripa to be featured in her Reading with Ripa book club
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  by Lorraine (Unpublished Author) 4 months ago

  Single-title romances
  Single-titles novels are romance novels not published as part of a publisher's category. They are longer than category romances, typically between 350 and 400 pages, or 100000-110000 words.[16] Publishers may release the novels over a shorter space of time for sales velocity and publicity reasons, but on average authors write 1.5 novels per year and have one each year published.[2][23] Single-title novels remain on the booksellers' shelves at the discretion of the store.[24]
  Despite their name, single-title novels are not always standalone novels. Some authors prefer to write several interconnected books, ranging in number from trilogies to long-running series, so that they can revisit characters or worlds. Such sets of books often have similar titles, and may be labelled as "Number 1 in the XXX Series", but they are not considered series romances because they are not part of a particular line
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  by Lorraine (Unpublished Author) 4 months ago

  Fantasy romance
  Main article: Romantic fantasy
  Fantasy Romance, also known as Romantic Fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy fiction, describing a fantasy story using many of the elements and conventions of the romance genre. Romantic fantasy has been published by both fantasy and romance lines, with some publishers distinguishing between "fantasy romance" being more like a contemporary fantasy novel with romantic elements, and "romantic fantasy" with more emphasis on the romance elements of the story
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  by Lorraine (Unpublished Author) 4 months ago

  heroine to fall in love with him.[38]
  [edit]Paranormal romance
  Main article: Paranormal romance
  Paranormal romance blends the real with the fantastic or science fictional. The fantastic elements may be woven into an alternate version of our own world in an urban fantasy involving vampires, demons, and/or werewolves, or they may be more "normal" manifestations of the paranormal—humans with psychic abilities, witches, or ghosts. Time-travel, futuristic, and extraterrestrial romances also fall beneath the paranormal umbrella.[27][39]
  These novels often blend elements of other subgenres—including suspense, mystery, or chick lit—with their fantastic themes.[40] A few paranormals are set solely in the past and are structured much like any historical romance novel. Others are set in the future, sometimes on different worlds. Still others have a time-travel element with either the hero or the heroine traveling into the past or the future.[5] Between 2002 and 2004, the number of paranormal romances published in the United States doubled to 170 per year. A popular title in the genre can sell over 500,000 copies.[41]
  Many paranormal romances rely on the blend of contemporary American life with the existence of supernatural or magically empowered beings, human or otherwise; sometimes the larger culture is aware of the magical in its midst, sometimes it isn't. Some paranormal romances focus less on the specifics of their alternative worlds than do traditional science fiction or fantasy novels, keeping the attention strongly on the underlying romance.[35] Others develop the alternate reality meticulously, combining well-planned magical systems and inhuman cultures with contemporary reality.