Mills & Boon romance novels embrace a sports theme???? What on earth!!!

Goodness me mimpi! Well make sure you reserve your copies on Amazon then! At least an angle with Doctor's makes sense to a point! lol. I wish I had a massive stack of Mills & Boon novels actually. I could use them for firewood in winter! Thanks for my congrats on reaching 5,000 posts too by the way. Alok and yourself were the first to do so and I'm very grateful.

You reached 5000! Really! I didn't notice...

I didn't really, it's an optical illusion! If you stare at the number long enough, you can see swirly bits!

Good God man! I've never felt more romantic in my life after reading such a stirring and heartfelt rendition! Thank goodness for KY, as it always saves the day in tight situations like these! I'm waiting in anticipation for the "mature content" tag to appear on this discussion now. May I also say that young Rupert has certainly made out like a bandit this time around! Hopefully in chapter 2, Samantha and Myrtle will move from bodice ripping to jelly wrestling! At least this would add the sports component that Mills & Boon seem to so desperately crave.....

Memories of halcyon days knee deep in the strawberry and raspberry with my best girl by my slide!

Ooooh, slipping and sliding with berries in the mix! It sure doesn't get much better than that! I wonder how she later explained the raspberry stains on her derriere?

I agree that it's strange! We are so used to seeing these Mills & Boon book covers with some woman being embraced by a bare chested man with bulging biceps and long flowing hair..... What's it going to be now? The same thing but he'll be wearing headgear as well??? I wonder if these new directions will be successful or not? I never liked these novels in the first place, so adding a sports twist is certainly not going to entice me personally in any way. I can see it now: "She ran her fingers lightly across his bare rippling chest. His skin was smooth and glistening and she deftly found the scar from the game last year where he was sprigged by a half-back during a scrum. She sighed deeply and raised her face to meet his gaze..... But he had drifted off to sleep due to the punishing training session he had just endured earlier that evening. Alas, a night of passion was not to be and she must once again wait for the off-season. At least for now she felt safe in his presence and her heart fluttered as she came to the realization that he was hers, forever." God help us all!

LOL..I didn't take offense...and I thought your comment was tongue-in-cheek humor. But still on behalf of us much maligned-bunch of romance readers, I can't help but speak out. Most people scoff at romance as a genre, considering it to be too low-brow, and few will admit to reading them, even though it is one of the most profit-driven books out there. After all, happy endings do sell..LOL..

I was confident that you hadn't taken offence and just have what you'd call a diplomatic nature! lol. Yes, I do recognize how well these novels sell and have to admit that I've even read one or two of them in the past myself; but they're just not my cup of tea I'm afraid. You mentioning Vampires and Werewolves kind of pricked my ears up a bit though! My Grandmother used to love them and would check new ones out of the library every week. It's escapism at it's best for many women too I guess. I remember my Grandmother sitting in her chair with these contented smiles on her face as she clutched the books to her chest. She'd been without my Grandfather for many years and I suppose these stories helped her to re-live many aspects of their life together in a sense as well. Or at least combined with her active imagination it did!

I guess it all comes down to whether you're a person that's into romantic fiction or not. If you are, then a change in setting like this would be most enjoyable you would think. So on that front, I'd have to agree with you that it may be a very smart move by Mills & Boon here. As you've rightfully shared, it's all about the writers delivering a proven formula with their storytelling and the settings in which this can be done are practically endless. But I'm NOT a romantic fiction afficianado, so you'll have to forgive my humour at such a thing!

I think ANYTHING with Fabio presents one heck of a visual and it doesn't really matter what the setting is. The question is whether it's a good or bad visual! I have my own answer to that anyways. I never considered the wet t-shirt angle at seal clubbing events either. The weather's cold too, so there'll be plenty of "high-beam" action! Perfect, just perfect! Shame about the seal part though.