With over 150 votes, these three books are locked in a virtual heat! So pick one.
(If you can’t see the survey, here’s a link.)
With over 150 votes, these three books are locked in a virtual heat! So pick one.
(If you can’t see the survey, here’s a link.)
While the first romance that ever really registered with me is Sweet, Savage Love (and I attribute that to it being the first book in which the sex was varied and, for the time, explicit), the first romance novel I read was–and I have no idea which–one of Barbara Cartland’s 723 books. I read hundreds…
Adam and Dina, the hero and heroine of Learning to Love, were not my typical characters, and presented challenges when I was writing them. Don’t get me wrong, I loved developing them, but they weren’t “easy” romance characters. Adam Mandel appeared briefly in the two previous books of this series*–as a previous, brief love interest…
This week some comments at AAR got me thinking about dark romance. The sub-genre is a broad one but, in general, dark romances have, duh, dark themes. They often traffic in kidnapping, non-con or dub con sex, violence, rape, and stalking. They are wildly popular–on the current romance best seller list, Emily Henry’s contemporary romance…
Dr. Feelgood and I have been watching Fargo–the TV show, not the iconic film–and, midway into season three, I think we’re done. The first two seasons were wildly violent but at least–more or less–the show made sense. The premises of season three are absurdly unbelievable AND Noah Hawley, the showrunner, keeps giving into flights of…
Disclaimer: I am not an author and have only a generalized sense of what is involved in regaining the rights to one’s work. I keep, at Amazon, lists of books I care about. I plumb these lists for Steals and Deals, use them as resources for recommendations and for blogs. Currently, I am keeping track…
I recently ran a report at Google Analytics to look at what are the most read pages at AAR. It was somewhat surprising and very interesting. This report is from the past three months but these same pages show up on the report for the past year. In the past three months AAR had 443,750…
Wow–these are still separated by one vote each!
I already read Phoenix Unbound and I loved, loved, loved it.