OPTIMIST PRIDE

 I think as a whole, writers are an optimistic bunch. Just the fact that we keep sending our babies/stories out into the world--whether it's as a blind submission, a query, a critique, or a published book--we have to have hope that someone somewhere will be touched by what we created.

Romance writers are especially optimistic. In world plagued by divorce and unhappy endings, we strive to make readers believe in the Happily-Ever-After.

When I picture the future, I see two scenarios--

1--Esca...