Re: Another perspective on faith and romance

Posted by Teresa Medeiros on April 16, 2002 at 07:04:21:

In Reply to: Re: Another perspective on faith and romance posted by Mary Lynne on April 15, 2002 at 21:17:53:

Mary Lynne,
I think you hit the nail on the head. While I totally defend her right to feel any way she pleases, it deeply saddens me that Robin would feel uncomfortable with the lovely books she wrote prior to entering the Christian market. In some ways, those books may have been just as much an influence for good because the print runs in the secular market are so much higher. Plus you're not always "preaching to the converted". I know the Christian music market has to deal with this dilemma, too. If only other Christians are buying and listening to your work, then the people who most need a positive, uplifting message in their lives may be missing out. However you feel about Him personally, Jesus very much got out into the world and walked with all men, not just his followers. But a romance author who makes this switch may also be caught between a rock and the Christian Bookseller Association because unless she makes the distinction on her website that Robin did, some of her new readers may stumble on her old books and be offended by the explicit love scenes, however subtle. Having been misquoted myself a few times in my career, I'm certainly willing to give Robin the benefit of the doubt regarding the interview, but it does make me sad that she's not proud of her former work and the good it accomplished.

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: Mary Lynne, : I think you hit the nail on the head. While I totally defend her right to feel any way she pleases, it deeply saddens me that Robin would feel uncomfortable with the lovely books she wrote prior to entering the Christian market. In some ways, those books may have been just as much an influence for good because the print runs in the secular market are so much higher. Plus you're not always "preaching to the converted". I know the Christian music market has to deal with this dilemma, too. If only other Christians are buying and listening to your work, then the people who most need a positive, uplifting message in their lives may be missing out. However you feel about Him personally, Jesus very much got out into the world and walked with all men, not just his followers. But a romance author who makes this switch may also be caught between a rock and the Christian Bookseller Association because unless she makes the distinction on her website that Robin did, some of her new readers may stumble on her old books and be offended by the explicit love scenes, however subtle. Having been misquoted myself a few times in my career, I'm certainly willing to give Robin the benefit of the doubt regarding the interview, but it does make me sad that she's not proud of her former work and the good it accomplished.