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SPS-307: Why You Should be Writing in Anthologies - with Carol Van Natta

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Space Opera Is a Good Vehicle for Romance

The term was coined by a critic in the i think of's late forties, early fifties. He said you are getting all that mundane stuff in my precious science fiction. All you're doing is writing soap opera in space. So i just added the romance part because not all space opera has am thus the standard romancee. They'll have people who are falling in love and then falling out of love and then dying - which is fine with it. It's just, what i'm writing is romance. And i want to signal that to the people who want it. I don't write e romance is not the primary motivation for the story. In my paronormal romance series

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