Today’s
question comes from Sarah H.:
I would like to know why romance is never written
in first person POV with the exceptions of The Outlander series and The
Twilight series.
First person
stories are an interesting breed as the interest in them is really about
50-50. Some readers enjoy them and
others don’t.
For those that
do, there are quite a lot out there and I asked a few of my friends and fellow
editors for some titles:
The Wild Rose
Press has a number including Reindeer
Games, and Forever Freed is said
to be a phenomenal award-winning TWRP book in first person male POV.
On Dublin Street and Bared to
You are apparently on the NYT Bestseller list, and here are two links to Amazon and Goodreads that you can check
out:
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/15671.Romances_written_in_first_person
Stacy
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First person seems to work well in YA. I just sold one to a new line and can't imagine it being written in any other POV. Thanks for the interesting post.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Tanya!!
DeleteThere's one thing that bothered me about first person. I was reading a book and an unknown character was mentioned in a conversation and it took me a minute to figure out that name was the "I."
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point Ilona. As the main character is the speaking character, it is important to get their name known early on and without referring to themselves in the third person. So yes, when it pops in later in the book, there is that moment the reader is pulled out of the story to make the connection.
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