How Well do Category Romances Age?

With the publication of Harlequin’s Famous Firsts Collection, I recently read two romances from the 1980s, Debbie Macomber’s The Matchmakers and Anne Stuart’s Tangled Lies. Though Tangled Lies has a suspense plot, it is less prominent,...

Public Service Announcement

The message boards are back online!!! After much wrangling, some unladylike language, and finally getting to deal with a truly wonderful, helpful IT person, the boards are back up. From the email I’ve been getting, I...

Digital ARCs: Yes, Please!

Galleycat at Media Bistro is hot on the e-ARC thing. Or in hashtags-speak #digitalarcs.  And, considering that we are hearing from multiple sources these days that publishers are cutting back on ARCs, the timing couldn’t be...

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

We give many reasons for reading romance and loving it so. The comfort of a guaranteed happy ending, the feeling of being swept away to another time and place, fascination with the workings of the human...

Is This the Face of Shakespeare?

All in a Days' Work

When I read Rike’s piece on places in romance, it made me think of another item that matters a lot to me in a romance – or indeed, in most things I read. I don’t expect...

I Beg to Differ

There was an opinion piece in yesterday’s Washington Post about the reading of college students. They are, the writer argued, more likely to read ‘inferior texts’ like Stephenie Meyers’ Twilight series, or our new presidents’ memoirs,...

Kindle 2: iCool

I was already in love with the original Kindle. Now with Kindle 2 and the new iPhone app my love affair is now epic. For my money, Kindle 2 is the Don Draper of eReaders. The Sawyer. The Eric...

Cutbacks

Every other day, it seems as though I get an email inviting me to start a “financial diet” or telling me about ways I can save and cut back. I’m no economist (my background is in...