I love the description of the real you. You would probably be amazed that most women are just like that too. I think one big reason women love romance novels is that they can fantasize about being that beautiful heroine with glowing skin, naturally pink cheeks and lips, long, curling tresses, perfectly dressed, thin as a rail and naturally smelling of roses. It’s fun to read these descriptions as we’re sitting with a cup of coffee in our hand, grubby clothes on and no make-up – oh and hair on our legs long enough to braid! It’s as if these beautiful ladies are projecting themselves for us and we don’t have to go to the trouble of getting all dressed up.

I love a heroine who says what she thinks as I tend to do the same. (Can you tell?) Sophia sounds like a girl I can certainly understand and sympathize with. Love it and look forward to reading “Deception.”

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That sounds like a terrific book!

Nope, not a romance heroine. Hard to imagine myself as one when I am taking care of 3 yrs old. Definitely don’t feel very romantic… hence why I read romance books!

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I have a tendency to believe… to be gullible and trusting. In this I am like so many of the heroines. Of course, in the books it works out well and to her advantage… in real life… not so much. ;o)

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Ladies~

So good to see you all here! LOL–sounds like everyone has the same experience as me. Well, excepting Margo, of course, who’s witty, pithy, curvy…and full of it.

May and Shana, see, taking care of 3 year olds and cleaning up church gyms could *totally* be heroine material! Except that the dirt from the clean-up has to be attractively smeared and the flyaway hairs create a sort-of ambient glow to your also-healthily glowing face. It’s very hard to achieve. And taking care of a 3 year old could completely be a romance heroine, only in her baseline state of mild sleep deprivation, she wouldn’t be short-tempered or haggard, and her general impatience or mental confusion and exasperation would be balanced by the aforementioned glowing-ness and effective problem-solving skills. (And, might I add, a 3 year old who probably doesn’t act like any 3 year old I ever saw)

Nancy~ You said it! I love writing the heroine I may never be, but that, at times, I aspire to, although, of course, in the deeper, more meaningful ways. Bravery, (Which isn’t to say I wouldn’t like the shining glowy stuff too. )

Betty~ Another great point. The things that would probably burn us in real life have a way of working out, at least in regards to the hero, in romances. Sometimes that’s less true in real life.

Rebe~ But we’ll keep writing & reading about those kick-ass heroines that most of us aren’t either, b/c the stories are So Much Fun!

Connie and Melody~ Thanks so much!!

I hope you love the story and Sophia’s determination against all odds, even as far as stepping into the hero’s Kier’s grand and dastardly schemes.

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I have read both Defiant and The Irish Warrior and just wanted to say how much I enjoyed them both!! Oh, I may have had a few of those traits once upon a time (had the dark brown tresses anyway lol) and now it’s grey! I’m looking forward to Deception!

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Hi Kris!

I am not really romantic heroine material. I am honest and steadfast. However, I am also too trusting and gullible with frizzy hair, and I am losing weight slowly but surely.

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Ti C~
Exactly!! It’s the same way when writing, to be able to lose yourself in the moment of what Might Be. Thanks for saying hi, and for calling yourself fluffy.

~Kris

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Cathy P~
Go you, losing weight slowly and steadily! Yeah, “steadfast” doesn’t often make the marquee for romance heroines, does it? It’s not what we think of, and it’s not the great big hook, and it’s not very flashy. But it’s awfully valuable, so go you again.

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Both these books look great. Thank you for the givewaway

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Oh what a fun post! And maybe like your new heroine you need to have to be pushed till you snap, and then the witty remarks and tough as nails courage will kick in.
Me…I like to think I look great in the morning, some days my hair does curl perfectly and I get an appreciative look from my hubby. And I don’t crack under pressure, having been involved in helping out after major accidents occurred…it’s the hours later after the adrenaline crash that it hits. And of course my perfect womanly figure…well as long as I don’t judge myself and see me rough my husbands eyes.

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I am not romance heroine material but I really enjoy reading about them. Thanks for the great giveaway.

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I really dont think so. I dont seem to have the sense of adventure or opportunity.

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