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Manga Mania

In case you’ve been dead for the last several years, an important visual art form from Japan, manga, has been sweeping our natio…

Surprisingly, a lot of romance manuscripts have too much sex and not enough romance. I like to say they don’t have enough kisses…

Gothics have been on my mind lately. The original Gothic novels were written in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in England …

Comic books and genre novels have always derived directly from popular culture, usually directly or indirectly from other media su…

I really wanted to title this “Jane Austen is Spinning in her Grave,” but it seemed entirely too undignified an image for a la…

Success at Last! I won’t say that the illusive Romance Thief has been apprehended, but after contacting the service departmen…

Thief Stop Stealing Our Blog! If you've read Poison Ivy's recent posting you know that someone took one of our blog articles an…

Okay, now I have to vent. While I was researching romances on the Internet today, I came across one of my previous essays, Writ…

Years ago, I was surprised when an English professor firmly stated that women’s novels all had recipes in them. Because, shockin…

Arguably the most influential 20th century Gothic novel was Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier, published in 1938. But by mid-century, …