Romance Has The Best Uber Spies!

It's Silly Sunday Commercial ;-).

I was thinking (and it hurts on a Sunday) how in a romance story, every little look and gesture has an impact on the opposite sex. For example, Marlena (Into Danger) walks into a bar.

In a mainstream suspense, Marlena walks into a bar and the story will focus on the small suitcase she is carrying. Not a briefcase. A suitcase. There might be some focus on the fact too that she is all in leather and alone, but mostly, the narration will be all about that stupid suitcase and maybe why she is alone in a bar. The hero would probably be thinking about how he's going to get information from this target and how he'd stick to her like glue for the next few days, blah blah blah.

In a spy-fi romance, the focus is all on the woman from the POV of the male protagonist and how she's affecting him. Yes, the writer must subtly feed the reader that there is some intrigue going on, that our man's tied up to the suitcase somehow, but it's important to show that his senses are involved. He watches every one of her moves, studies the way she holds herself and the way she treats the males who approach her, getting to know her his way. Why? Because the romance hero is ultimately the alpha animal scenting a mate in its presence and he's unconsciously planning to have That Female all to himself. All unconscious, but all so deliciously obvious to the reader.

THEN insert the spy action because our romantic little hearts are already engaged. The male protagonist might have been ordered to kill the female protagonist but we know that's doomed because hah, the author/Cupid has set them up, poor things. The challenge now is to weave the intrigue and romance together and not lose the balance of action and emotion.

The following commercial plays on the same theme but from the female POV. It's every man's fantasy ;-), but done in a funny way because another oily balding guy is involved. His reaction when the male protagonist licks the envelope at the end gets me cackling every time. Poor dude.



Remember--every little gesture and look counts in a romance. In between killing bad spies, of course. It'd have been better if the guy in the ad is a bit bulkier, heehee. Why are European dudes so gangly? They need more pizza in them!!!

It's funny how there are so many ads like this targeting men. I haven't really seen one where a woman wearing a certain perfume will get such male reaction ;-). If you have seen any, send them my way!

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