August is Read-A-Romance Month!

I stumbled across this initiative recently, and was keen to share it with those readers of my blog who, like me, love to read romance.

What a marvellous idea! As Burt Bacharach so eloquently put it: ‘What the World Needs Now Is Love.’ I don’t believe anyone would be worse off for reading one romance novel in the month of August.

Read-A-Romance has two great elements:

1. Some great contests to win ereaders and romance books.
2. Three authors per day exploring why they believe romance matters.

The second most interests me, because it’s a subject I am passionate about. The event organisers released a quote from the first essay on the subject, by bestselling author Susan Mallery, to the media:

“Romances do not repress women, as is sometimes implied in the media. To the contrary, our books empower women. These are heroine-driven books, with strong women in every career imaginable, triumphing over obstacles… These are books that teach women that we can do anything, be anything. And they teach women that men have to earn the right to be with us.”

Well put!

I very much look forward to reading the daily opinion pieces. If you’d like to do so too, visit http://www.readaromancemonth.com.