One thing I've always found curious is the reaction of other writers to age differences between lovers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Most of them accept an age span\u00a0as perfectly acceptable in historical romances.\u00a0 If it's in jolly old England during the Regency era, then of course it's okay for a 17 year old female to find love with a decades older man.\u00a0 However, move the characters forward to\u00a02009 and suddenly it's wrong and\u00a0makes them out and out uncomfortable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is distance and time enough to justify the Regency. But\u00a0put the same couple in today's world, and\u00a0fears over what is and isn't\u00a0socially acceptable change the dynamic.\u00a0\u00a0I dislike and generally refuse to acknowledge most lines and labels.\u00a0 Even if I didn't, books are the best place to explore, to push the boundaries.\u00a0 If you're perfectly content to follow the herd, then why would you need fiction?\u00a0<\/p>\n
In my novel, E-mail Enticement<\/em>,\u00a0 a 17 year old and a thirty something fall madly in love\u00a0in a hot and steamy, read it with your favorite partner nearby kind of way.\u00a0 He teaches her about hypocrisy and she teaches him that you're never too old to hurt.\u00a0 They battle community opinion and the law and learn that redeeming some things means losing others.\u00a0\u00a0In the story, age\u00a0provides the barrier that love must\u00a0overcome.<\/p>\n In Email<\/em>,\u00a0 Alix realizes that\u00a0the calendar is only a function of how men count time.\u00a0\u00a0Mother Nature gives maturity at her own pace.\u00a0 That's one of the reasons\u00a0I wrote the story.\u00a0 Whether it's Regency England or modern day Myrtle Beach, one size doesn't fit all.\u00a0<\/p>\n Love doesn't have a watch or a calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One thing I've always found curious is the reaction of other writers to age differences between lovers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Most of them accept an age span\u00a0as perfectly acceptable in historical romances.\u00a0 If it's in jolly old England during the Regency era, then of course it's okay for a 17 year old female to find love with a decades ...continue reading \"Mother Nature Trumps Father Time\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}