Submitted by Leslie Kelly-Parrish on Thu, 2009-06-25 12:42.
Why is Violence Better Than Sex? by Leslie Kelly aka Leslie Parrish
In recent years, when people heard I wrote Harlequin Blaze novels and other light, sexy contemporaries, they would usually have a few predictable reactions. There was the snooty eyebrow lift combined with the slight flare of the nostrils, prefacing, "Oh, you write those books?" Or perhaps the eyebrow wag and the smarmy snicker. "How do you do your research? Yuck yuck!" Some people might even look genuinely intrigued…then ruin it by saying, "Oh, those are the formula books, right? They tell you what to do and you plug in the details? I was thinking about doing that sometime to make some extra money!" (Uh, yeah, you go right ahead and do that and call me on the day your first book gets published!)
But something has changed. Since I have become Leslie Parrish, the author of dark romantic-thrillers, I'm getting different reactions. "Oh, cool! I love thrillers!" Or "Wow, do you think they'll make movies of these books?" Or the capper, "You must be so happy not to have to write those sex books anymore."
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