Happy Ever After versus Disappointing Classics There are lists of classic plays we all are exhorted to read or see in our lifetime, in order to become literate and cultured. I 
100, er, 10 Most Romantic People Time Magazine does a list of the 100 most influential people on the planet. I’m all for Angela Merkel running Germany, but I’m…
Do You Want Romance Retreads? Random House announces it will start up the Loveswept line of romances again as ebooks only. The line is supposedly going to be a …
Stupid Mainstream Journalists Writing Dreck About Romances, continued Yes, there are more silly articles continuing the summer fashion of mainstream journalists hating on romances. One from the LA Tim…
Romances Equal Good Reading An article in Utah-based KSL.com that claimed “romance novels can be as addictive as pornography” raised a stir in the Twitter…
Why Romance Novels Aren’t Like RomCom Movies The recently opened movie romantic comedy, “Bridesmaids,” is more like a serious romance than a comedy. Oh, sure, the ads all …
Romances Ahead of the Curve Suddenly, the whole world knows what we who read romances already knew about Navy SEALS. Romance writer Suzanne Brockman has been …
Mad Hatters The big romance story this week has been the wedding of Britain’s Prince William to Kate Middleton. Numerous people seemed to th…
Genuine, Original Romance Lately I’ve heard about a couple of would-be artists, one even an acclaimed artist whose works command huge prices, flagrantly a…
Romance versus Anna Nicole Smith Anna Nicole Smith was famous for being trashy. A Playboy model and sometime stripper, she charmed a very elderly, very rich man in…