Love in the Office: Romance Book Clean & Wholesome

Love in the Office: Romance Book Clean & Wholesome

“Love in the Office” = “Clean & Wholesome”? DOES NOT COMPUTE.

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AJ
AJ
6 years ago

One of the comments implies that this “clean & wholesome” romance is actually surprise incest. I’m beginning to suspect that the Amazon self-pub “clean & wholesome” genre just means “hetero and not kinky”.

RK
RK
6 years ago
Reply to  AJ

Well, maybe it has a twist ending:

So there it was: the hottie from the office turned out to be my biological brother. “I guess I’d better not bang this guy,” I thought. So I went ahead and married that other guy I was planning to marry in the first place.

The end.

AJ
AJ
6 years ago
Reply to  RK

Nah, it can’t be. That’s better writing than I’m seeing in the preview. šŸ˜›

James F. Brown
James F. Brown
6 years ago

Romance Book. Clean & Wholesome?

Uh, isn’t that an oxymoron?

The few Romance books I’ve thumbed through (not a genre I read) have racy passages every so often throughout the book.

OK, Jane Austin doesn’t count. I get that.

RK
RK
6 years ago
Reply to  James F. Brown

No, that’s not an oxymoron if the book’s talking about a dude plowing his wife. There’s even a well-known trope about that. Of course, some of us readers might also insist the language has to be clean too (i.e. no blasphemy and obscenity).

One example I’ve read: A Rose In Winter by Kathleen Woodiwiss. The marital consummation scene in there did get rather hot and heavy and left no question in the reader’s mind of what was happening, but it didn’t have any porno terms or overly explicit descriptions. Woodiwiss had a reputation for being a master of that kind of writing.

Lydia
Lydia
6 years ago

Danger Will Smith! Error! Error!

Lydia
Lydia
6 years ago
Reply to  Lydia

That would be Will Robinson, right? Or whatever that family’s name was. I never liked that show.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
6 years ago
Reply to  Lydia

Dr Smith was the villian who kept putting the Robinsons in danger. Hate it but can’t forget it.

Lydia
Lydia
6 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

Exactly

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
6 years ago
Reply to  Lydia

Pretend to hate it, but still love to wave my arms saying “Danger! Danger!” šŸ™‚

Frank
Frank
6 years ago

Clean and wholesome! Packed with FIBER! No GMOs. Gluten and backdoor free!

Karl
Karl
6 years ago

I’m so glad that the tagline specifies that this is a “book.” Otherwise I might have mistaken it for a “Romance Ham Sandwich” (Clean and Wholesome).

Terry, why, oh why couldn’t you have just said “A Clean and Wholesome Romance”??? Three fewer letters and 98% less stupid!

Why?????

Whyyyyyyy …. [voice trails off in phlegm-choked gurgling]

Frank
Frank
6 years ago

12 pages. I do wish authors would stop calling a work of 12 pages a book. That’s a short story. Wouldn’t have mentioned it, but it says ‘book’ on the cover. Can a short story be a ‘book’ simply because it has a cover? Can romance in the office survive staff meetings and, of course, Kevin? And who’s stealing my cheese sticks from the break room refrigerator?

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
6 years ago
Reply to  Frank

Leroy, the new accountant assistant, aka cheese breath.

12 pages more or less for a short story or chapter sample book is called a chapbook and actually has a recognized place.

Calling a chapbook a book and charging book price is an abusive practice.