To GIF or not to GIF? The world today allows us some many great pleasures that weren’t there so long ago. Such as, Goodread. Most of the modern readers, authors, publishers, and more are all about Goodreads, and other sites similar to help find or promote books. And how […]
Romancing the Capital, #RTC2015 Wrap-up by Alice C. Last weekend, April 17th and 18th, I (Alice, fellow HJ) was in Ottawa, Canada for the most amazing event—Romancing The Capital—Canada’s first ever romance writers’ convention. I want to start this off by saying that I have never been to writers’ convention, […]
I <3 Romance Genre! ICYMT: Jane Litte @DearAuthor announced she is Jen Frederick NA Author and there’s resulting commentary all over Romancelandia about it. Here’s one of many blogs, SBTB: Answering Questions: Jane Litte/Jen Frederick. I might have an opinion about it but I’m not here to pass a judgment. […]
Book Summary Pet Peeves I have to read a lot of book summaries. And when I say ‘a lot’, I mean a crapton. Like anything else that one sees all the time, there are things used in summaries that make me grit my teeth – and some of them are […]
i on Romance: Getting Books Into Hands There’s a pretty big news story that concerns young readers, and it’s about LeVar Burton using Kickstarter to resurrect his show, “Reading Rainbow”. I know it’s not in the Romance genre, but I’d like to talk about the general concept of getting people […]
i on Romance: Crossover Genres There are a lot of different crossover genres when it comes to romance. There are people that read many different kinds, and there are people with their particular niches. I tend to stick with Mainstream Contemporary, Adult Contemporary, and Suspense, while veering off that […]
Today I want to talk about the hotness factor. Romance novels have always had varying degrees of steaminess, but I think today we have so many more choices. There are still the chaste novels, all the way down to Christian romance, and we go all the way up to what […]
Happily Ever After ~Versus~ Happy for Now. A few years ago, Happy for Now (HFN) was a trend. Now I see it more as a preference that an author makes as he or she writes a book. What do you consider is a true ‘Happily Ever After’ (HEA)? Is it a […]
What does “Bestseller” mean to you? Well, we all know what the term “Bestseller” should mean – and it usually does. It represents something that has made more sales than other things of it’s kind through a certain medium. In this case, I’ll be talking about books. (not a shock, […]
It’s not a new thing – people dismissing romance novels as “trashy”, or sordid, or just plain bad. It seems like it’s easy for people who’ve never read any of the romance genre to make fun of those that do. But truth be told, it’s an incredibly large portion of […]