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Romance Novels Entertain Without Offending
by CleanRomanceClub
CleanRomanceClub.com celebrated its third anniversary in February 2007.
For three years, authors Marcia Lynn McClure and Marnie L. Pehrson have been offering women an electronic and morally clean alternative to typical mainstream romance novels. An ebook at the CleanRomanceClub is an electronic version of a novel or novelette that the reader can either print or read on a computer, PDA or Palm Pilot.
These romance novelists have been pioneers in two non-traditional venues for the book market - ebooks and clean romance. Addressing the issue of the ebook format, Pehrson says, "We've found that our readers are voracious. They want something to entertain them between print releases. The ebooks are a great way to satisfy that hunger."
As for the clean romance aspect, Aneeta Sundararaj of HowToTellAGreatStory.com had this to say about Pehrson's latest best-selling print novel, Angel and the Enemy, "Having never read a piece of work specifically categorized as 'clean-romance' I was curious about this novel. I must admit that there was a part of me that thought that 'clean-romance' translated into 'boring'. Truth could not be further from reality. I was pleasantly surprised by how this story was not only deeply entertaining, it contained all of the ingredients for a great story, which are suspense, drama and action."
Not only do McClure and Pehrson's fans enjoy their ebooks, but readers are anxious to purchase ebook titles a second time as they go into print novels. Pehrson's Barnes and Noble best-seller Angel and the Enemy is one example of several ebooks Pehrson has expanded into full length print novels. McClure enjoyed phenomenal success as three of her ebooks were released as print novels via Granite Publishing and Distribution's Love Notes Series. Another of McClure's e-book titles, Divine Deception, joins the Love Notes Series soon, as popular demand will bring McClure's Born for Thorton's Sake to printed bookshelves sometime in March.
Readers never seem to tire of the pair's novels. "People email me to say they've read Shackles of Honor twenty times or The Visions of Ransom Lake ten times," says McClure. Pehrson explains why fans keep re-reading the novelists' books: "Women want to feel something when they read romance. They want to experience what it was like to be young and in love for the first time. They want to get lost in another time and place. We give our readers those feelings, while still respecting their intelligence and imagination. That's why they stand at their home bookshelves and say, 'I love the way The Heavenly Surrender made me feel. I think I'll read that one again.'"