kontextmaschine:

I s2g Anne McCaffrey must have mixed up her How to Write Romantic Fantasy and How to Write Romance Novels notes at some point

Like, something you can see reflected in how the female protagonists relate to men in the Pern, Talents (which does not get nearly enough attention for being all late-‘70s incest-“gifted” ESP special children when the core novels were published in the early 90s), and especially Crystal Singer series is that before she was a big-name author she had been a fixture of institutional SFF fandom and as her publishing career took off at the start of the '70s she divorced her husband and moved to Ireland.

Anne McCaffrey is absolutely a writer of romantic fantasy romance novels for women who got divorced in the early '70s and the daughters they hope won’t have to.