Valentine’s Day has become Valentine’s week and has me thinking. Should I include a romantic interest in the historical novel I’m currently writing? My little French peasant, Marie, is only twelve, but she could find puppy love with the young goat herder who came to her rescue.
Romance creeps in on all my books. The novels start out as mysteries involving a crime and danger, but the main characters manage to squeeze love in while trying to survive. For example, in Gator Bait of the Tennis Team mystery series, it’s Packi and a man her team mates think is inappropriate for her. In The Neighbor’s Wife…Anna needs someone to care for her. Even in my Young Adult novel, the kids are too young to call it love, but an attraction is budding.
What do you think? Should a girl with heaps of trouble in the 17th century bother with romance?
Jeanne Meeks ~ Fiction Author 