According to Trish Silver, the author of When I Remember Love, romance novels offer an emotional comfort food, which is relevant in tough economic times.

“Good romance novels can also be an encouraging force in women’s lives specifically, during economic downturns. They can show strong heroines overcoming barriers in productive ways.”

Trish says she likes to write about the power of true love and to show  that such love is a real possibility in their own lives, even when external circumstances may be more discouraging than usual.

What are your thoughts? In dreary tines, are you  more likely to escape to the world of fantasy – be it novels or soap operas, or some other form of romantic fantasy?

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Romance Novels: An Escape in Hard Times

Yournovel.com offers 25 novels in settings including exotic Caribbean islands, a cruise ship, dude ranch and ski lodges. There’s historical fiction and a detective novel, too.

Yournovel.com’s paperbacks range from 150-190 pages and cost $49.95; hardbacks range from 200-230 pages and cost $94.95. Photos can be added to the cover for an additional $25.00. Priority shipping and handling is $7.00 in the U.S. or $16.00 on global orders.

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The customized books come in both mild and wild versions. Each book is personalized novel features more than 25 details of the couple crafted from an online questionnaire that includes names, hometown, workplace, friends, favorite music and much more.

You can order online at yournovel.com or by calling (800) 444-3356. Husband and wife founders Kathy M. Newbern and J.S. Fletcher have been creating the novels since they met and fell in love back in 1992.

Right now, we are giving away one of their customized paperback books. To enter the giveaway, just leave a comment on this post. You will be automatically entered into the giveaway, which ends next Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 11:59pm ET.

Thanks to yournovel.com for sponsoring the giveaway.

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Giveaway: Star in Your Own Romance Novel

I am constantly amazed by the number of women who are steadfastly against pornography and yet they are involved with what I term “Chick Porn”.  Honestly, I don’t get it.

Pornography….the naked 18 year olds (with breast enhancements and lots of airbrush and computer generated fixes) in gymnastic poses is, by most people’s ethics, a detriment to a committed relationship.  No real woman can live up to those nubile young girls, and fulfill her man’s fantasy in quite the same way, no matter how much she tries.  Men get excited based on fantasy rather  than reality and eventually it can cause big problems. Being visual creatures those images are etched on their brains and pop up at all the wrong moments.

But…..women do the same thing with romance novels…even Christian romance novels.  Come on, those guys? Never happen.  They are as fake as a porn star’s boobs.  They always have brooding eyes, and full lips…their noses are never encrusted with the residue of the virus they picked up at work and they never make rude noises at inappropriate moments.

Their brooding eyes are never fixated on a sports event and their full lips never say hurtful things.  They say suave and romantic things rather than, “So, ya wanna do it?” Their muscles ripple in their tanned chests and they wash dishes.

Personally, I don’t think a woman should expect her husband to act like a guy in a romance novel until she is prepared to act like a nympho on  “Nymphos Gone Wild XIX“.

I have been told by many women that I am wrong, so if you leave a comment and say, “I disagree “you are not going ot hurt my feelings..but before you do that…think about this…

Do those romantic scenes make you sigh or are they bland and boring? Because if they don’t seem bland and boring..if there is just one iota of “Gee, I wish Mr. Perfect was like that” then you have fallen into a porn mindset.

Men are aroused, for the most part, by the images that they see… most women are aroused by the words that they read.  Either way, your emotions and sexuality being manipulated and your spouse is being compared…and usually ends up the loser in the comparison.

There are women that can be affected by pornographic images, I am one of them.  I have to be very careful because I am very visual..But for us it is a double whammy because we also need to be that much more careful with the words that we read…or pretty soon we have a whole movie happening in the gray matter.

In my very not so humble opinion..if you are bored in your marriage and your spouse is not everything that you think he/she should be…spice it up.  You make the effort to make it incredible rather than wasting your energy reading porn.

And guys…seriously..Most women respond to love letters and light erotica (that YOU have written to HER, not some scummy book) the way that most men would respond if their wives sent them a phone image of herself wearing thigh high fishnets and a bustier…

And …ladies…ummmm…the phone image thing? Not a bad idea.

Keep it hot.

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Porn is Not Just a Guy Thing