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If someone were to come up to you and sneer, “I don’t write romance. I write a real love story involving real people grappling with real dilemmas*,” is your response:a) “Oh, so you do write romance, then?”b) “Pretentious, much?”c) “I assume this dismissal of an entire genre was reached through…

Nathaniel Hawthorne (who as you can see was somewhat of a hottie) also experienced libel accusations in regard to one of his most famous works of fiction.In The House of Seven Gables, the name of the corrupt, evil villain is Judge Pyncheon. It just so happens that there actually was…

You may have heard how a Georgia jury found the author of The Red Hat Club, a novel, libeled her former friend by basing a character in the book on her – going so far as to even identify her actual neighbors – and adding that she was a right-wing,…

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