Will romance writers be the last to acknowledge that “sculpted abs,” “lean bodies,” “perfectly rounded breasts,” and “firm rumps,” while all quite nice, are not prerequisites for sexual chemistry and satisfaction? Perhaps not. Perhaps romance writers can instead position themselves at the vanguard of a literary movement to acknowledge that satisfying sexual relationships can exist  … Read more

I’m reading Romance Without Tears (which I do only for research purposes). It’s a collection of old comics that were published by Archer St. John. These were published in the 1950s during the heyday of romance comics. Man, what a different world that was. In a panel from “I Set A Trap For A Wolf,”  … Read more

We here at Arrow Publications, which produces Myromancestory.com, get all kinds of queries for novels. Of course, since we don’t do novels as our guidelines clearly explain, we send out a rejection. Sometimes the queries are decently written, but we just don’t do what they’re pitching. Sometimes, they’re so poor that even if we did,  … Read more

Being a newcomer to the world of romance novels, I confess to some ignorance on a few perhaps minor points. For example, I assume (and the Romance Writer’s of America will surely have statistics on this) that over 90 percent of the readers of romance novels are women. Not that men don’t read romance novels,  … Read more

If I never understood the phrase sticking out like a sore thumb before, I truly understand after attending a major Comic-Con in search of artists. As a Comic-Con virgin it was certainly something to write home to Mom about. First and foremost, I can state with relative confidence that not only was I the only  … Read more

Sexual Warmth “She drew her knees up and gripped me with her calves and I went deeper into her and held her there, frozen in ecstasy. If I moved a millimeter, I’d explode and she knew it. We held tightly, not moving but struggling for breaths. In a moment, I don’t know how long, the  … Read more

We were talking to a nice lady at Women’s Forum while mulling over the possibility of becoming one of their partners. Although she loved the site (I think she used the words “fabulous” and “fantastic”), the powers that be at Women’s Forum found our site too spicy. They said they were more focused on family  … Read more

One Saturday last winter, with a foot or two of snow on the ground and the power out for a while, I did something that I’d never done before. I read romance novels – six of them. The titles and the names of the authors don’t matter since with a few minor variations the stories  … Read more

Title: Killing Time Author: Madeline Hunter Publisher: Ballantine Books Price: $25.95 Length: 330 pages Linda Howard takes another foray into paranormal romance with this story of time travel, suspense, mystery and passion. Chief county investigator Knox Davis has a rather difficult case on his hands. It begins with the bizarre theft of a time capsule  … Read more

Our webmaster is away on vacation, so the spam bots have been having free reign over on the MyRomanceStory discusion board. The interesting thing about all this spam is that it is 90 percent porn, most of it excessively lurid by today’s standards. Another 9 percent is herbal remedies for priapic inadequacies or sexual enhancers.  … Read more