Cat shaming Eloisa James on Feminism, Sexuality, and Why Romance Novels Are More Than Worthy of Respect – Can we be done with the “here’s a white lady/guy with a phd to tell you that romance is worthwhile” feature article… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: May 2014
Beacon Hill: The Series
The future of television appears to be subscription based content streaming. As the number of soaps aired on traditional networks continues to decrease, a market opportunity opened up. Unless you’ve got the money of Netflix or Amazon behind you, streaming content means… Read more »
Links: Thursday, May 29th
Stupid Question Writerly Ethos – Emma Barry has a sort of author mission statement post and it all just sounds so pleasant. I am a heroine-centric reader and writer. My heroines tend to be a bit of a mess, but… Read more »
Breaking All The Rules by Rhonda McKnight
This was a DNF by the end of the sample. I’m going to lay out my objections with the caveat that the premise itself was pretty much a deal breaker for me. Breaking all The Rules pushed a ton of… Read more »
Links: Tuesday, May 27th
Europe’s Landscape Is Still Scarred by World War I Romantic Conversations, from Idle to Burning – I feel like a lot of people have been discussing their boredom with romance’s sex scenes lately and I’m right there with them. Pamela’s… Read more »
The Trouble With Heroes by Jo Beverley
The Trouble With Heroes feels incomplete. Stepping outside of her customary genre has given Beverley the freedom to experiment more widely with a theme that often appears in her full length works. Unfortunately, she pulls her final punch. Set in one of… Read more »
Obligatory #RT14 Recap Post
If you’ve been on Twitter at all in the past week, you’ve undoubtedly seen links to dozens of posts recapping last week’s RT Booklover’s Convention. I flew down to New Orleans to attend RT for the first time this year,… Read more »
Links: Saturday, May 24th
Cat with a Butterfly “[U]niformly awful and awfully uniform”: how not to engage with genre fiction – Jodi McAlister adds her voice to the “STFU Giraldi” choir and it’s great stuff. But what’s this dismissiveness about? Often, it’s disguised a… Read more »
Island Peril by Jill Sorenson
Everything I disliked about Island Peril can be summed up in one phrase “I grew up in South Florida in the 70’s and 80’s.” But we can get to that. Jill Sorenson tweeted a link to Island Peril as a free… Read more »
Links: Thursday, May 22nd
A Trove Of 400,000 Images From The Met That You Can Use For Free 50 Shades of Nonsense – There was yet another awful article published where a Man shared his Manly Thoughts on romance. Natalie breaks it down for… Read more »
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