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<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:08, 15 June 2007</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Romance History]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Romance History<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]][[category:Publisher Submission Guidelines</ins>]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Below is a special letter from the imprint's editors with suggestions for authors and admonitions about overused character professions, plot devices, and settings.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Second Chance At Love Series|Second Chance At Love]] was a [[Category Romance|category romance]] line published by [[Berkley]]/Jove in the 1980s. </ins>Below is a special letter from the imprint's editors with suggestions for authors and admonitions about overused character professions, plot devices, and settings.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>From:</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Category:Romance History]]<br /> Below is a special letter from the imprint's editors with suggestions for authors and admonitions about overused character professions, plot devices, and settings.<br /> <br /> From:<br /> <br /> Ellen Edwards/Senior Editor<br /> Valerie Flournoy/Consulting Editor<br /> <br /> --- FLASH --<br /> <br /> A SPECIAL NOTE<br /> <br /> Dear Author:<br /> <br /> We would like to see more fresh, creative plot twists and characters in our books. Although the books must fit the SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE general guidelines, writers should strive for original ideas so that each book will be different and exciting. The following list contains devices which we feel have been sadly overworked and should be avoided:<br /> <br /> ::the heroine is too often a: journalist, photojournalist, artist, writer, archeologist, travel agent, or is connected with a resort or hotel;<br /> <br /> ::the hero is too often a: architect, archeologist, artist, photographer, travel agent or is connected with a resort or hotel;<br /> <br /> ::in-motion&quot; scenes (i.e., a scene with the heroine in transit--by boat, plane, car, bus or train-to where the main action of the story will take place) are overused as openings in the manuscripts we see. &quot;In-motion&quot; scenes should not be included as chapter opens later in the book, either.<br /> <br /> ::the following settings: Mexico, Italy,Greece, and the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and any desert or dude ranch).<br /> <br /> Here's hoping we'll be able to get out even better, more romantic love stories to all those fans out there!<br /> <br /> The Editors</div>

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