Teach Me Tonight

Charlotte of Close Reading Romance has written a series of posts thinking through how any HEA is, fundamentally, an act of inferring the fu...

If you've got an unpublished essay on romance, you might be able to submit it for the Francis Award, which comes with a $250 USD prize a...

Laura Vivanco In For Love and Money I look at a number of " mythoi " (" traditional or recurrent narrative theme or plot ...

Laura Vivanco My analysis of Virgin Slave, Barbarian King got so long that it wouldn't have fitted easily onto the blog so I've ...

Laura Vivanco Phillipa Ashley recently won the Romantic Novelists' Association 2007 Joan Hessayon Award for Decent Exposure , her debu...

Laura Vivanco I'm certainly no expert on the inspirational romance sub-genre but it seems to me that, just as with the genre as a whole,...

It all started out with an advert on the Washington DC Metro which was reported to the Smart Bitches . The resultant furore was reported ...

That's the title of Deborah Lutz's recent book (full title T he Dangerous Lover; Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Centu...

One advantage of blogging seems to me that I can jump around from topic, and hope somehow that it all coheres in the end. Blogging with oth...