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rachelmanija Jul. 2nd, 2006 10:31 am)
rachelmanija Jul. 2nd, 2006 10:31 am)Last night Oyce and I were checking out some of the Harlequin Presents' line, which falls into three often overlapping categories: Exoticised Ethnicities, Financial Fantasies, and Babies. For instance, The Greek Tycoon's Secret Baby. However, we noticed that there are only four types of Exoticized Ethnicities in the series: Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, and Sheikhs. This seemed unfair to other ethnicities, who do not get the chance to murmur random endearments in their own languages and be described as "dark-haired, dark eyes, almost black, and with a dark, deep, sensual smile."
To help us in our quest to right this injustice, please choose your favorite title or titles, then write a drabble (a story of 100 words) for it, or write the back cover copy for the book in comments.
Note to people who might wander in randomly: This is a parody of an old-fashioned yet extant romance genre, so some terms are in there because they are outdated, Orientalist, etc. No offense is intended to actual Peruvians, eunuchs. (But if we left out your own ethnicity, feel free to suggest a title.)
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To help us in our quest to right this injustice, please choose your favorite title or titles, then write a drabble (a story of 100 words) for it, or write the back cover copy for the book in comments.
Note to people who might wander in randomly: This is a parody of an old-fashioned yet extant romance genre, so some terms are in there because they are outdated, Orientalist, etc. No offense is intended to actual Peruvians, eunuchs. (But if we left out your own ethnicity, feel free to suggest a title.)
[Poll #760758]
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Also, for other people reading this, "The Proud Peruvian's Passionate Pasha" is our token gay romance, since all the minorities have to be male. Unless of course, they're Nubian.
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To Irene, India was a land of exotic orchids and slightly dotty, if harmless, gurus. Certainly, she never associated it with fire and brimstone -- or romance. All that changed when he walked into her shop.
The demonic foreigner
Krishniathan was nothing like she expected -- everything about him fascinated her, from his prehensile barbed tail to his cute Gandhi accent. And his wicked ways in bed only fueled her demonic obsession. She wanted more of him, only more, more, more. And so she became ...
The Infernal Indian's Insatiable Inamorata
---L.
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Would you like a near-mint copy of The Greek's Secret Passion or In the Spaniard's Bed?
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(Short shameful confession: I swiped the prehensile tail from a paranormal erotica writer in my writer's group. I added the barbed, though.)
---L.
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The Scottish Sultan's Scandalous Spreadsheet reminds me of a number of Beatrice Small romances which involve good Scottish girls getting dumped into Turkish harems, with predictable results.
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See, this just makes me think of the Purple Pie-man of Porcupine Lane.
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The Vietnamese Vampire's Voluptuous Virgin
Born of a regal Parisian family, Marie had been exiled to Annan for a crime of passion she didn't commit. Young, vibrant, and beautiful, she was soon the toast of society, catching the attention of many a young expatirate.
He was anything but innocent!
But the most compelling of all the men was Sigh. The son of a Parisian father and an Annanese mother, he was sophisticated, charming, and exotic. But his charm hid dark secrets, as Marie would discover all too soon...could her pure heart overcome the darkness inside him? Or would they both succumb to the very darkest of pleasures?
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