Suddenly, the whole world knows what we who read romances already knew about Navy SEALS. Romance writer Suzanne Brockman has been publishing romances about them since 1996, and others have written similar stirring romances about strong men and women and covert military action. Romances reader are very familiar with Navy SEALS. Unlike the Washington Post  … Read more

Lately I’ve heard about a couple of would-be artists, one even an acclaimed artist whose works command huge prices, flagrantly appropriating, copying, and altering another’s copyrighted work. This didn’t just happen once, and by mistake. It’s a lifelong habit of taking from others. (No links, because these are bad people who have gotten rich by  … Read more

Anna Nicole Smith was famous for being trashy. A Playboy model and sometime stripper, she charmed a very elderly, very rich man into marrying her, and then spent the rest of her short life in litigation over his estate. Her train wreck reality television show and various public appearances while likely under the influence of  … Read more

Ever bought a romance solely because the cover art appealed to you? Kept it for the same reason, even after discovering that the novel itself was a dog? I have. These days I might just go on the net and capture the art from someone selling the book, and keep it in a file. In  … Read more

We used to get plenty of free advice everywhere. All our female relatives, most of our male relatives, and virtually every adult we knew handed out comments about our behavior, our appearance, and our life plans. We also got advice from our peers, much of it jeering. As most of us in America have moved  … Read more