Man-friendly author invades the romance novel genre

Submitted by Trudy W Schuett on Tue, 2007-09-11 13:01

I’ve always had unusual ideas for promoting men’s issues, and now I’ve got myself right into maybe the wildest idea yet! I’ve entered a romance novel competition, and I need a lot more votes before Friday if I’m going to make a showing there!

This is the First Chapters Romance competition at Gather, and the Grand Prize is a publishing contract with Simon & Schuster, which is not something to be sneezed at. Imagine the romance genre being invaded by a man-friendly author! There are no “beta male” characters in my books, no deeply-flawed bad boys, just (mostly) decent human beings who sometimes turn out to be heroes. As in real life.

I figure a lot of you have already joined up at Gather to check out the Men’s Issues Group, so why not take it one step further and vote for my book here. Leave a comment if you like! You will have my undying gratitude…

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Anything male friendly gets a 10. Keep up the good work!

anthony

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Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2007-09-11 13:42

Whatever it is -- as long as it is ethical -- consider it done.

"the most outrageous aspect is the total and i mean TOTAL silence from women. hell, they could care less. makes me sick." ~ donnieboy5

"Feminism: The most organized form of nagging" ~ Peter Zohrab

*E-Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/No_Feminazis

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Submitted by MrReality on Tue, 2007-09-11 14:02

1. Go to this link
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977072954

2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page where it says, "Post." click on that button.

3. You will be prompted to join Gather. All they want is a username and password -- no data mining there.

4. Once you've joined, you can get back to my book and vote. for some odd reason, only the 10 votes count in this thing.

THX!

T____

Men's Issues at Gather
http://mensissues.gather.com/

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Submitted by Trudy W Schuett on Tue, 2007-09-11 15:54

I think it just means "on a scale of 1-10" or "out of 10 possible" - like a school GPA would be "3.5/4.0"

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Tue, 2007-09-11 17:59

It appears that some feminist women and men have been posting comments below this article by Trudy:

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977112268

Please help with your views!

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Submitted by mens_issues on Tue, 2007-09-11 21:20

Well Trudy I've always enjoyed desertlight and your polemical observations.

But, I just don't read romance fiction.

VAWA cured me of that.

So, whatever you have to say...

I just no longer care about women's fantasies.

I'm sure yours are redeeming indeed. ;-)

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Submitted by Roy on Wed, 2007-09-12 22:33

Women killed it. Women began killing off actual love waaay before feminism was even thought of by exploiting men.

"the most outrageous aspect is the total and i mean TOTAL silence from women. hell, they could care less. makes me sick." ~ donnieboy5

"Feminism: The most organized form of nagging" ~ Peter Zohrab

*E-Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/No_Feminazis

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Submitted by MrReality on Thu, 2007-09-13 00:33

I gave the article a "ten" :-)

She has some other good articles on the site too..

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Thu, 2007-09-13 03:21