No, please, not that! Anything but the Invincible Female Warrior!
For want of any other writers’ organization to join, I once joined a romance writers’ group. I still have nightmares about it. To this day I don’t know which cliche is the absolute worst: the sexy Invincible Female Warrior or the Dark and Sexy Vampire. If you’re really rolling snake-eyes, you’ll get ’em both in one book.
I mean, what is the point of writing a novel that does nothing but pile up cliches? Homer knew better than to do that, and he was almost 3,000 years ago.
It is said, with some justice, that people get the government that they deserve.
It also looks like they get the popular fiction they deserve.
Speaking of fantasy books, I was able to find all of Edgar Rice Burroughs book series, and many other authors books online through “Project Gutenberg Australia.” I am reading Burroughs’ Amtor Series (Venus) again.
What a joy to discover those books, when I was in high school!
Ugh. I’ll stick with “Oy, Rodney,” which seems more realistic and more interesting than what you describe here. 🙂
Scary thought: “Oy, Rodney” could actually get published. Who would notice how awful it is?
The sex scenes are hilarious – they especially fixate on nipples. I may have read two of them in my lifetime – two too many.
You wouldn’t believe some of the things those romance writers came up with. Words fail me.