Lazarapaste has a great post on Dear Author about Romance heroines, beauty and virtue–with the upshot being that she’d like to see some heroines with a lot less beauty and virtue, or with beauty decoupled from virtue. I’m probably saying it wrong. You should go read it. And if you’ve…
There’s a helluva long thread over at Dear Author regarding another author/e-publisher behaving badly. Karen has a few crumbs, too. The whole thing makes me sad–the mudslinging, the back and forth. Some of the alleged behavior is so terribly Jr. High. But the really sad part is, at least when…
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Whew. The day job turned my brains to mush, and I left a few things hanging. For instance, the Create a Contest Contest. Isabelle Santiago is the winner, and her “What Kind of Thief are You” contest will run on February 12 with my guest post at Beyond the Veil….
Another great post over at Dear Author wherein Jane wonders if a makeover would get the Romance genre a little respect from the mainstream. Now, I hate mantitty, secret babies and clinch covers as much as the next gal-who-also-likes-to-occasionally-read- in-public-or-on-the-bus, but not even a tag team of Oprah, Tyra and…
When I try to recall the Romance novels I’ve read from the eighties they blur into this weird image of a hydra-headed chimera of asshole billionaires, white savages and pirates–all somehow depicted by Fabio–forcibly seducing a veritable secretarial pool full of foot-stamping, head-tossing, chin-lifting virginal heroines. And, I seem to…
Is it just me, or are there a few too many snarky-heroined open-ended first-person paranormal series out there? I can’t buy books because I am broke, so I picked up Karen Marie Morning’s latest fairy-flavored offering from the New Books shelf at the local biblioteca. She’s not my usual style…
So first Kate alerts me to this cool contest over at Samhain, and then I read in Dear Author that Samhain has partnered with Kensington for a print line. Congrats to Samhain. It sounds like a great deal them and an even better deal for Kensington. With heroes that have…
Lacking anything original to say today, I will link to a couple of interesting entries over on Dear Author. The first is an interview with Heather Osborn, formerly of Ellora’s Cave and now with Tor. Osborne has insight into both ePub and print publishing, which makes for some interesting reading….
Romanceland is a strange sort of place, airy and ephemeral. Setting often does not seem to have the same sense of importance as it does in other genres. Most historicals are set in a vague and misty “past” – usually European and usually peopled by lords and ladies who travel…
