Teach Me Tonight

Sarah S. G. Frantz Romances are often derided -- one might even say MOST often derided -- for their "formula." Leaving aside issu...

Laura Vivanco One of the things I've found most fascinating about the many discussions I've read and participated in on romance mess...

Laura Vivanco Were-creatures are popular in romance at the moment. Although it's gone now, some months ago Loose Id had a section dedica...

Laura Vivanco Catherine Cookson (d. 11 June 1998 ) 'reigned supreme as the UK’s most borrowed author for 17 years' ( Public Lending...

Laura Vivanco There have been a lot of very interesting discussions about romance this week. Diana Peterfreund's Archetypes Anonymous m...

Laura Vivanco Eric's posted on the topic of poetry, poets and the romance genre. And, as he mentioned Byron, I'm taking this as a go...

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

Laura Vivanco No, not of the world, or even of this blog. I've just been thinking about the HEA (Happy Ever After) again. Recently Book...

Laura Vivanco Sarah's been taking a close look at 'many variations on the definition of popular romance fiction' and she argues...

Laura Vivanco You like tomato and I like tomaeto; Potato, potaeto, tomato, tomaeto! Let's call the whole thing off! But oh! If we call t...

Laura Vivanco Following on from Eric's post about eros and my own about medical metaphors and the science of love , I thought it might ...

Her achievement is proof of her persistence and attention to detail. And if any of us accidentally refer to her as the Baroness of the Bacca...