Hockey goes Harlequin!

[caniac_26]

Hopefully, this wasn't covered somewhere else, and I missed it. Anyway, move over Fabio, before you get hip-checked right off the book cover! :lol:

Hockey in romance books scores

Monday, April 9, 2007
ITHACA, N.Y., Apr 9, 2007 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Check this: Fans across North America are getting revved up not just for the Stanley Cup but also a crop of romance novels with hockey as a backdrop.
Knights in shining armor set in days of yore are getting forechecked by a new breed of woo pitchers wearing jerseys.
"I wanted a great leader -- good-looking, driven and passionate," said Deirdre Martin, the Ithaca, N.Y., writer who modeled parts of her "Body Check" leading man after Rangers' great Mark Messier.
Sue Grimshaw, a romance buyer for Borders bookstores, said the sub-genre is a hit. "Hockey players are alpha males, and for romance readers, they're good characters for the story," she told the New York Post.
Rachel Gibson, whose "See Jane Score" reached the 2003 Romance Writers of America Top 10, said she knew it would be a hard sell but she went for it anyway.
"The appeal of hockey is it's not politically correct," she said in the newspaper article. "They hit each other. They knock each other out. It's testosterone driven."
And the NHL couldn't be more pleased. NHL spokeswoman Bernadette Mansur told the Post, "We're thrilled. Given the handsome players and their good character, it's not surprising."

http://home.peoplepc.com/psp/newsstory.asp?cat=Entertainment&referrer=welcome&id=20070409/4619ba40_29e_67020070409-27792811

[livinthedream]

LMAO at the thought of hockey players plastered on the front of a Harlequin romance novel.

But Mess?

Let me think about that one....."great leader --- good looking, driven and passionate.....alpha male.....testosterone driven."

DAMN. Too bad that wasn't the topic of Saturday's press conference.

I'M.SORRY.I.just.couldn't.resist.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[SouthernHockeyChick]

Works for me!! :lol:

[SoCalcaniac]

Seriously? Love it! Although, I'm not a big Messier fan, but I get where she was going there. I know quite a few Mess fans, but I could think of my own prototypes , lol.


the NHL couldn't be more pleased. NHL spokeswoman Bernadette Mansur told the Post, "We're thrilled. Given the handsome players and their good character, it's not surprising."


I think she summed it up just about right, eh? :lol:

[kermelbar]

*sheepishly admits she's read some of those*

Oh, c'mon, during the summer? Nothing's better for poolside reading than smut! Someone else can read Oprah's depressing picks -- I have better things to do in the sun. =.)

Btw, the players aren't on the covers a la Fabio.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060009241.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_SCLZZZZZZZ_AA240_SH20_.jpg
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0380790076.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_SCLZZZZZZZ_AA240_SH20_.jpg
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060009268.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_SCLZZZZZZZ_V46497803_AA240_SH20_.jpg

[Serendipity]

Btw, the players aren't on the covers a la Fabio.

Too bad. What a waste of a prime marketing opportunity. :D

Of course, knowing the NHL they'd be having shirtless Crosby all over those things.

[livinthedream]

Ser, the first time I read your post I missed seeing the 'r' in shirtless. :lol:

[Shattered]

Too bad. What a waste of a prime marketing opportunity. :D

Of course, knowing the NHL they'd be having shirtless Crosby all over those things.
:sick: :sick: ***my eyes*** :sick: :sick:
;) :kiss:

[puck_it]

i thought this said "hockey goes to harlem" the first time i read it. :lol:

[caniac369]

Of course, knowing the NHL they'd be having shirtless Crosby all over those things.

:sick: Bleh.

[SoCalcaniac]

i thought this said "hockey goes to harlem" the first time i read it. :lol:

hee hee- they already have- Willie O'Ree does his thing there- and so do the Rangers.... but, I actually thought it said that too. ;)