Wedding Traditions: Love ’em or Hate ’em? One day recently I was driving through the historic part of a small city, and saw a horse and open carriage going along with a bri…
Epublishing and the RWA: In Opposite Corners Again Just last week, at its annual national conference, the Romance Writers of America (RWA) announced new guidelines under which it wo…
Men Have Written a LOT of Stupid Romance Comics From time to time, someone in the blogosphere takes it upon himself to mock old romance comics. I mentioned one such episode a few…
Independence Day I’m so glad to have independence, so I can rant one day and smile the next, and blow a few things up, too! And since fireworks a…
Are Romance Novels Bad for You? No. And no, this is not a continuation of my previous story of my collection of supposed bad habits. It just so happens that i…
Ripping on Bodice Rippers The other evening I was dining with a batch of old friends from the comic book business. As conversations do, the talk turned to w…
Romance as a Bad Habit We all develop bad habits. These are defined as repetitive behavior that harms us in some way but also delivers some reward to us.…
Romances: Trash versus Treasure Here we go again: The latest version of the usual debate has been raging on various web sites. You know, the one about whether rom…
Sentimental Lies To the degree that popular fiction is a lie, it doesn’t live beyond its original moment. It has to be revisited for this to …
You CAN Tell a Book By its Cover My library reading group (it’s practically a law that women must join one) just read a classic tale of Norwegian pioneers of the…
