Mr. Darcy, Perennial Romance Hero I finally broke down and watched the British miniseries adaptation of Jane Austen’s most popular novel, Pride and Prejudice. On …
Romance with a Message Maybe you think that the romances we all consume are completely without any agenda other than boy meets girl. Nothing could be fur…
Torn Between Two Loyalties In many romances, the heroine is torn between two loyalties. She initially identifies closely with her family. She sees the hero a…
Jealousy Romances reflect the state of our society. Not very long ago, we used to think that a man proved his love by showing jealousy of h…
The Girl Gets it in the End Carmen is not a good girl heroine. Carmen freely chooses and dumps lovers. Carmen dies. The wages of sex is death. Well, at least …
A Plug for the Girls Next Door Virtually next door, that is. We list Smartbitchestrashybooks.com as a link on our sidebar, and I hope you have gone visiting some…
Does This Mean I Have to Reread Silas Marner? Most of us struggled through reading a few examples of classic 19th century English literature when we were teenagers. Not because…
Phyllis A. Whitney, Gothic Writer Supreme Today we mark the passing of a remarkable romance writer, Phyllis A. Whitney, at age 104. Ms. Whitney had a long and distinguished…
Lurid Romance Titles There’s been a lot of talk lately in the romance world about the current fashion of publishing romances with titles like “The …
Plagiarism to Make You Laugh Usually it is not amusing when someone steals your writing. It’s a matter for heated phone calls, for cease and desist letters, …
