Elizabeth Culmer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
edenfalling) wrote2006-11-18 03:26 pm
edenfalling) wrote2006-11-18 03:26 pm
from the department of random observations
I spent the past couple days rereading some old school Anne McCaffrey, which is completely and utterly the fault of that SF/F book list meme. And then THINGS occured to me in the wee hours of the morning, such as the following.
Considering only their writing (and ignoring such petty physical details such as, you know, age and appearance)...
Nora Roberts and Anne McCaffrey: long lost twin sisters separated at birth, or just a subconscious psychic link?
Discuss.
ETA: Okay, since people don't seem to know who Nora Roberts is, she's a very popular US romance novelist, who tends to write reasonably likeable characters in extremely formulaic books. (Like McCaffrey.) Most of her books are 'present-day' and relatively realistic (for soupies), but she does often venture into more fantastic premises, like time travel and witches. She also writes sci-fi murder mysteries (with side romance) under the name J. D. Robb.
I guess the soupy romance book market is more regionalized than I'd thought.
Considering only their writing (and ignoring such petty physical details such as, you know, age and appearance)...
Nora Roberts and Anne McCaffrey: long lost twin sisters separated at birth, or just a subconscious psychic link?
Discuss.
ETA: Okay, since people don't seem to know who Nora Roberts is, she's a very popular US romance novelist, who tends to write reasonably likeable characters in extremely formulaic books. (Like McCaffrey.) Most of her books are 'present-day' and relatively realistic (for soupies), but she does often venture into more fantastic premises, like time travel and witches. She also writes sci-fi murder mysteries (with side romance) under the name J. D. Robb.
I guess the soupy romance book market is more regionalized than I'd thought.