A few months ago, Avon’s digital-first imprint was doing a hashtag thing on Twitter and the editors participating in it expressed a desire to see more multicultural submissions. I was snarking a bit about editors always saying they want subs… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: January 2014
Links: Thursday, January 30th
The Truth Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars – I think Pryor’s quote is the perfect counterpoint to this poorly argued article. If people can’t vent on Twitter, lest it scare the establishment, where would they have them do it? Yet even… Read more »
Links: Tuesday, January 28th
The Missing Tudors: black people in 16th-century England Dear James Delingpole: You Are The Problem – Meadows takes on some disgusting columnist who wrote a blindingly sexist article for a UK newspaper about gendered toy marketing. His ignorance is especially… Read more »
Covet Thy Neighbor by L.A. Witt
In one of my links posts last week, I mentioned wanting to read a romance featuring a religious or atheist character where there was no conversion narrative. That caught the attention of Riptide editor Sarah Frantz, whom I’ve talked to… Read more »
Links: Saturday, January 25th
Uhh… no thanks A Conversation About Asian-American Erotica Writers – Suleikha Snyder and Solace Ames were at The Toast talking about writing romance and erotica. Suleikha Snyder: We definitely need more of that, and more mature handling of what women… Read more »
Thankless In Death by J.D. Robb
While many have given up on the In Death series I wasn’t ready to throw in the towel. They’re a comfort read – the book equivalent of flipping to a favorite syndicated show and hoping for an episode you haven’t… Read more »
Links: Thursday, January 23rd
Old friends. Caroline Linden on historical erotica and the sexual mores of an earlier era – Linden stopped by AAR to talk about 17th and 18th century erotica The School of Venus and Fanny Hill before going on to discuss… Read more »
Calculated Exposure by Holley Trent
She went to Ireland looking for a muse, but found a mathematician instead. Photojournalist Erica Desoto has spent five weeks in Western Europe hoping for inspiration, with just one decent photo to show for her effort. And that shot was… Read more »
Links: Tuesday, January 21st
The mighty hunter A note on historical romance sales in print – Courtney Milan breaks out some hard sales figures to speak about how Harlequin doesn’t have a record of successfully selling historical romance in print and how “China-set historicals… Read more »
Stealing Kisses by Harmony Evans
As much as I generally like to read Harlequin novels, I haven’t read many from their Kimani line. The Brenda Jacksons I tried felt flat to me and the blurbs for other books never seemed to grab me. Additionally, I… Read more »
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