Set the World on Fire I just had an interesting thought. A romance usually is an intimate, even a domestic story. Often, it’s about women who are quit…
My Quest for (a) Romance When I used to read thirty romances a month (yes, I really did), I knew exactly which stores had the newest books, and what day of…
Amish Romances are Still Fiction Recently the Wall Street Journal had an article describing the boom in Amish romances. These are not romances written by the Amish…
Is Romance Only for Old People? A new humor book, How Not to Act Old, strongly suggests that only Old People use terms like “making love” and “sleeping with…
Fascinating Covers, Tempting Books I’ve always been a sucker for a good cover. At the recent Romance Writers of America annual national conference in Washington, D…
The Best of Times? It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of …
The Big Deal about Epublishing and the RWA The RWA is the Romance Writers of America, a 10,000-member-strong writers organization that maternally tries to look out for the w…
It Isn’t Fair It isn’t fair. The most interesting and romantic book covers these days are not on romances at all. They’re on science fiction…
In Defense of Women In Defense of Women is a sly polemic written by H. L. Mencken almost 100 years ago, basically accusing women of trapping men into …
Confused About Paranormal Romances? Me, Too Paranormal romances are big sellers these days. But it’s hard to know what is and what is not a paranormal romance, especially b…
