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Laura Vivanco Another day, another guest blog for Sarah! Today she's at Romancing the Blog : Romance novels remind me that it’s the smal...

Laura Vivanco Sarah's got a guest post up at Dear Author in which she sings the praises of Suzanne Brockmann's novels and, in parti...

Yes, folks, it's an official Call for Papers : POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION An International Conference August 13-14, 2009 Bris...

Eric, here, everyone, with some breaking news. Romance fiction--and, just as important, romance scholarship--is heading to Princeton next Ap...

Laura Vivanco In response to a previous post of mine AgTigress said that I am most uncomfortable about a classification that distinguishes ...

I believe we talked about this documentary when it was first shown on BBC Four. Some kind soul has now uploaded it in bits and pieces to You...

Laura Vivanco In Merline Lovelace's The Harder They Fall the hero tells the heroine a bit more about his family background and She coul...

Laura Vivanco I've read a few romances recently which reminded me of Ros Ballaster's distinction between "didactic love fiction...

Laura Vivanco Pamela Regis has written that "Near the beginning of the [romance] novel, the society that the heroine and hero will conf...

Laura Vivanco Katrina Britt's Open Not the Door (1978) might also be titled "open not the pages unless you don't mind reading ...

Laura Vivanco Eric's written an end-of-term report on his romance fiction class. Whatever the life-skills they learned or missed, stude...

Laura Vivanco Over at Reader, I Married Him Elizabeth is analysing Connie Brockway 's As You Desire . There are excerpts of the novel h...