Will Scandal change the way you read romance novels?
I love Scandal . Every Thursday, I'm sitting in front of my TV watching Shonda Rhimes work her magic. This show is so well written, the story lines are layered and it's never what you expect. But at the heart of this show, we're rooting for one of the most flawed couples on TV since JR and Sue Ellen Ewing. Olivia Pope is cheating with the President --uh, of The United States. No, this isn't one of those judgmental posts about the show. Because we all know cheaters: either you are one, have been on the other side of cheating or had to stop yourself from going all Carrie Underwood on his ass. But are we are readers and writers ready to look at the complexity of all kinds of love? Yes, a married man can fall out of love with his wife and love another. Why did we love E. Lynn Harris’s books so much? If you didn’t cry at the end of Invisible Life , I don’t know if we can be friends. But guess what, women can cheat and have sex for fun. But when those characte...