No one seems to know exactly how many covers Fabio appeared on during his career, but it was likely in the hundreds. Illustrator Elaine Duillo did many covers featuring Fabio And it was Lindsey who introduced the world to a blonde model who would become inexorably linked to the genre for many years to come: Fabio. In the 1980s, few were doing more epic clinches on their covers than the author Johanna Lindsey. This ubiquitous romance cover design even got its own name: clinch covers. These covers are familiar to anyone who grew up stealing glances of them in the grocery store in the 1980s: half-nude men, women with gravity-defying hair. “These books were the only place where women could see themselves and see the trauma that women in the world often have to deal with and then also see themselves in triumph and in hope and in, you know, passion and happiness and love-like these are powerful, subversive ideas.” The Clinch Tender is the Storm was illustrated by Elaine DuilloĪs the romance genre exploded in the 1980s, the covers got more over-the-top and eye-catching. This is why romance novels got saddled with the nickname, “bodice rippers.” But Sarah MacLean is hesitant to completely dismiss these early works despite the rape scenes. That is, romantic adventure stories that often included dynamics of sexual violence. After the success of The Flame and the Flower, many similar kinds of books hit the shelves. The hero of the book rapes the heroine multiple times before they eventually fall in love and live happily ever after. But, The Flame and the Flower was also problematic. The book sold 2.3 million copies in the first 4 years, and opened the floodgates for similar kinds of books. The Flame and the Flower was a romantic adventure story with a female protagonist, and it had something else new too: explicit sex. Woodiwiss looked at the adventure novels her husband was reading and asked herself: where are the ones with leading women, told from a female point of view?Įventually, Woodiwiss sat down and wrote one. By this definition alone one could argue that someone like Jane Austen was basically a romance novelist, and some people do, but MacLean believes the modern era of romance can be traced back to the early 1970s and a self-described Midwestern housewife named Kathleen Woodiwiss. But at the end, they live happily ever after.” The happily ever after (or HEA if you wanna sound in-the-know) has always been a distinguishing feature of the genre. Sarah MacLean, a romance novelist (who once wrote a romance based on a 99PI episode), says that all romance novels have a basic pact with the reader: “I’m going to take you on this wild ride and there will be massive highs and massive lows. A False Proposal was Pam Mingle’s first romance novelĪfter Producer Katie Mingle’s mom wrote a romance novel, Katie set out to understand the romance genre and its classic covers.
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