Or maybe it’s just really disturbing…I haven’t decided yet. Decide for yourselves…
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‘Racy’ writing: Harlequin to publish NASCAR-themed titles
Harlequin Enterprises, best known for its romance fiction titles, is planning to add novels with storylines plucked from the NASCAR stock car racing circuit.
A licensing agreement announced Wednesday with NASCAR will see Harlequin publish a variety of NASCAR-branded “women’s fiction” titles.
“The novels, by some of Harlequin’s bestselling authors, will have plotlines centering on NASCAR and will bear the NASCAR brand on their covers,” the companies said in a joint statement.
NASCAR claims 75 million fans and says 30 million of them are women.
“NASCAR has one of the largest and most loyal bases of female fans of any sport in the United States and we are delighted to publish novels that will appeal specifically to them,” Harlequin CEO Donna Hayes said.
The first title in the NASCAR series, In The Groove, will be published in late January to coincide with February’s Daytona 500 race in Florida - one of the biggest on the NASCAR circuit.
A promo tag line on the author’s website puts the opening plot point of In the Groove this way: “She wouldn’t know a NASCAR star if he hit her with his car - and he just did.”
Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Torstar Corporation (TSX:TS.nv.b). It publishes 1,300 titles a year. in the most recent quarter, Harlequin contributed $24.6 million of Torstar’s $34.4 million operating profit.
Shares of Torstar were off 41 cents at $21.92 on the TSX.
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Let me guess….every steamy romance scene in the book will take place in the back of a car…
I think “disturbing” is the beter word to use…lol
Okay, I wanna see you people come up with your best/worst romance lines that you expect to see in these books. For example, “He had been burnt by love once before, and it left his heart hard and blackened, like an old tire that’s ready to crumble…”
Crap like that…
He had tried desperately to win the competition for her heart, only to see someone else take the checkered flag…
A flame ignited in her heart, as if it had just crashed into the wall at the Indianapolis 500….
He spent all day preparing himself for her arrival…including a vist to his physician for a complete tune-up and lube. He purchased some new gas caps to insure there would be no dangerous fuel leakage, and read some erotic material to help rev up his engine…hoping that he wouldn’t just crash and burn…
Enough of this madness…I have a memo to work on….
Makes perfect business sense to me. Women like men that drive fast cars (hence the high fan rate for women and NASCAR), and I am sure that a romance novel featuring a rugged speed demon is exactly what Harliquin is going to sell. I will probably pick up five or six copies myself.
“She was a timid legal secretary. He was a nascar champion. Will he be able to teach her how to handle his stickshift?”
“including a vist to his physician for a complete tune-up and lube”
Wow…that’s…disturbing. Just…wow… LOL!
LOL!
Seriously, CK…I can’t believe I’m coming up with this kind of stuff…y’all have corrupted me….
With the hood propped open, each resting their elbows on the radiator; they gazed longlingly into one another’s eyes. They had spent the better part of the afternoon mulling over performance tweaks, only to find that this sudden eye contact spurned something deep within them.
Joe said to Esther, “would you mind, uh…fetching me the orange gojo? My hands are covered in lubricant.”
Sue Richards is Hot! Great to hear from you again! You need to post more!
Anyway, here’s my lines:
“He had taken her heart for a ride, but he only wanted a test drive.”
“The auto biography of her life”
“She thought he only cared about her headlights…”
Wow! Look at all of this creativity! I sense a recurring theme here with Lubrication…
I almost wonder if we should head over to NaNoWriMo and write our own NASCAR Harlequin over there. It seems we certainly have the talent for it!
I’m gonna offer up a classic line here:
“Whoa lady,” he said “it definitely looks like you’ve blown a seal…which is even worse if you’re a marine biologist.”
My love was fueled by high octane as I admired her hairpin curves….
This one courtesy of my brother, Eric.
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