No, it's because I have caught sight of one of those hunky doctors/ fishermen/ lumberjacks or whatevers looking handsome and moody on the covers of those books.My late MIL used to ask me to get her the Mills and Boon books from the library.Mind you, they are probably raunchy now, smouldering looks are passe these days! 
You'd be dead then!
To hell in a handcart springs to mind 
Bet they never even considered Mumsnet as a collaborator, although most M&B readers seem to be around that age. Imagine the comments!
I vaguely recall reading a M&B (found in the hotel "library" I hasten to add, not bought by me) on holiday a year or two ago and it was amazingly racy!!! 
Thanks GNHQ. That all makes sense to me. I don't really see what all the fuss is about 
... No one's saying all gransnetters are M&B readers in the same way I imagine not all M&B readers are grans...? Where's the harm? And I don't really see how they can canvas our opinion on every business arrangement, nor would I care.
Hi all
First off - thanks for your thoughts. We've been doing this for far too long to underestimate our users for a second so please believe us when we say that this partnership is absolutely not about making assumptions about gransnetters or any sort of attempt to dumb down.
The partnership (which isn't a commercial one by the way - no money is changing hands in either direction) won't change thing or take anything away from the site. Our thinking is that it's a really good opportunity for us to add some new stuff: competitions, some content pages, the odd discussion and so forth.
Mills & Boon is one of the most successful long-running businesses in UK publishing history, and demographically there's a considerable crossover with the profile of Gransnet users. We don't really agree that a taste for romantic fiction means that you must be a bit thick or unable to handle conversations about particle physics or politics - but nor are we intending to present a picture (to the wider world) of gransnetters as being committed rippers of bodices. It's more a question of exploring how our two organisations might work together for the benefit of GN users and M&B readers (as well, of course, as both businesses).
Anyone who's been involved with our book club will know that we cover all sorts of fiction (and occasionally non-fiction) and that's never going to change. We also cover pretty much every subject under then sun in terms of content and forum discussions. That's not going to change either. 
About twenty years ago I knew a woman who wrote books forMills and Boon. She said she received a sort of plan of the story with a few details about the setting and the characters and what happened and all she needed to do was to sort of fill in the gaps!!!
I read a few with a view to writing one. A friend and I wrote it together. It was rejected 
though they liked the dialogues which were my main contribution. However, I've never tried it again and my friend moved away which made collaboration difficult
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