First of all, a huge thank you to Lucy Felthouse and Erotica for All for having me!
I wanted to take the opportunity to muse on something that I have noticed that I readers and writers (myself included!) can’t seem to get enough of. If you’re looking for them—and I definitely am!—tortured heroes are everywhere in romance novels. Men with dark and dangerous pasts, physical and emotional scars…these heroes have really gone through some awful ordeals. Why do we love them so much?
First of all, thank you so much to the Erotica For All website and to Lucy Felthouse for inviting me to be here!
Full disclosure, I almost called this post “In Defense of ‘The Good Bits’” but then I realized that I didn’t want to defend anything – parties are a lot more fun than court trials, after all! – and a celebration seemed much more appropriate.
If you’re reading this post, you probably already have an appreciation for what I am calling The Good Bits of stories. You know what I’m talking about. The parts that make your heart pound and your breath quicken…they might even give you goosebumps or cause you to shift in your seat. I LOVE these parts of the story…which is why I write the stories that I do. But why? Why are these parts in particular so compelling? What is it about them?