@dormaspencer, Hello! I just discovered this forum and I am thrilled to know that you are writing mature romance stories. Yippppeeeeee! I will look for your work on Amazon.
I am also disappointed with the way the genre has been hijacked by male writers writing under female pen names and using unnecessary profanity-- ad nauseam. I don't like writing negative reviews so I stopped; But when one story had the sentence, 'you have the prettiest little "c" I've ever seen', I was COMPELLED to call out the writer about the use of this word in "romance". There is NOTHING erotic, sexy, or romantic, about using a known derogatory descriptive about female genitalia in a so called "romance" or sexplay scene. I cannot accept that a female writer would want to use that word in " romance".
Like you, I want to read stories that are more realistically RELATABLE to someone my age. I'm working on my very first story; hopefully, I'll stay motivated enough to finish it.
Fey Lady