Search Results for “romance”


Harlequin Sells Out

The biggest news in romance lately is Harlequin’s sale to HarperCollins. Torstar, a Canadian newspaper company, has owned Harlequin for decades, and now HarperCollins, a much merged U.S. publisher that is owned by Rupert Murdoch, will own the world’s largest and most consistent publisher of romance. HarperCollins also acquired a bible software company, which suggests  … Read more

Uncensored Passion By Bobbi Cole Meyer

MyRomanceStory is very excited about our latest release — this contemporary erotic romance has it all and then some! Kayla Quinlan Saradon was a beautiful, respected psychiatrist who her friends accused of having discovered the fountain of youth. Kayla wondered what her friends would say if they knew her secret was a polyandry lifestyle she  … Read more

Telephone Game Changers

“Telephone” is a party game, but also a tremendous game changer in romance in the last one hundred years. Although the core issues involved in committing to another person have remained pretty much the same over millennia, the details of courtship have varied dramatically just in the last century based on the changing technology of  … Read more

Not Your Usual Love Potion: Everyday Love Enhancers

Here at MyRomanceStory, love potions have been on our minds lately with the kick off of Gail Hamilton’s Love Potion Chronicles. In the classic opera L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love), Dr. Dulcamara sells a love potion to a peasant pining away after a wealthy woman. This love potion, is in fact, just a cheap  … Read more

Does Anybody Still Care About Getting Married?

Considering the interest in the recent television show, “The Bachelor,” it’s pretty obvious that marriage as the happy outcome of a romantic relationship is still an ideal people believe in today. But it also seems clear from Juan Pablo’s crass lack of cooperation, and his refusal to say the classic words about love and marriage  … Read more

Love Potion! Gail Hamilton’s New Series is Here.

What if there was something that we could use to make us irresistible to the opposite sex? Well in Gail Hamilton’s new e-short story series, The Love Potion Chronicles, there is! Jason was a science geek trying to create an elixir to rectify his nonexistent love life. Nancy was a botanical nerd desperate to find  … Read more

Gravity, a Movie Anomaly

I don’t expect to see me on any movie screen. In fact, I have never seen me on the screen. Most movies don’t have any smart girls at all, just dumb ones who pretend to be smart. Yes, I’m willing to except a couple of Angelina Jolie movies in which the sheer force of her  … Read more

Sagittarius: Love Zodiac

Get a little more in tune with yourself. Got a clueless lover? Pass it on. In Love: As in life, so it is in love for a Sagittarius. She will most likely have many love interests throughout her life. A wandering sign, Sag is not one to accept a mundane romance or settle down quickly.  … Read more

No Manic Pixie Dream Girls Here

What on earth is a manic pixie dream girl? I had to look this one up, and lo and behold, there’s a Wikipedia entry for it. When I read it, I nodded. Of course. In many movies, women are token figures who have no inner life. (That’s why I can’t tolerate most movies.) Nathan Rabin,  … Read more

How about we spice things up a bit?

Bill De Blasio was elected as New York City’s mayor in a landslide victory marking New York City’s progressive vision for the future. Being of German-Italian decent, one of the appealing aspects of De Blasio to New York City’s diverse public is that he is married to African American, Chirlane McCray, activist and poet. Thankfully  … Read more