I didn't mean to take over wizefics journal with this, but if you ever feel like doing a post about romance writers who handle this stuff well, I'd definitely be interested. It's not that I don't want to read stories about contemporary women having everyday problems, it's just that so many of them push the wrong buttons for me. (And neither of us has mentioned this yet, but a lot of the times it's the class issues in these books that drive me off more than anything -- I always seem to read things about about young women from a wealthy families who go to high-profile college and are just *shocked* that they don't get the job, income, and man they want right away.)