This month’s TBR Challenge theme was “All About the Hype”. I did try to read a different book, Hate F@*k by Ainsley Booth, but that ended up not working for me despite a promising beginning. My DNF review of that is here. So I’m not writing about that. Instead I’m writing about Magic Bites by
Elisabeth here. Today I’m pleased to welcome queer romance writer Roan Parrish to Cooking Up Romance. I don’t have a lot of guest posters, but Roan takes such great foodie Instagram pictures and there’s so much food in her current release, In the Middle of Somewhere, that I just had to ask her to make
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge is a historical fantasy young adult or possibly children’s romance. But since it was published in 1946, you’ll probably never see it reviewed that way. It tells the story of a thirteen-year-old girl named Maria who is orphaned and sent to live with an uncle in the village
Today there was a social media campaign going on under the hashtag #fallbackintime. Readers and writers were talking about why they write or read historical romance, often with the sentiment that they love history or that they can read or write about castles and ballrooms. Personally, I love historical romance because, well, men with swords.
Hi! How’s it going? I’ve had a little trouble getting posts done recently for various reasons. Maybe you’ve noticed? Mainly this is because I’m busy. How weird is that? I don’t normally think of myself as “busy” but I have an Etsy business, my blog, my normal housework-dog-feed us stuff, ballroom, D&D, my local DC
There’s a lot going on right now in Cooking Up Romance land! Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner released their new historical romance set in the 1960s on Tuesday, Star Dust. It’s the first book in their series about mid-century astronauts. A couple weeks ago I drove down to where Emma lives and helped out with
It’s that time again! October is Queer Romance Month. Last year’s event was amazing: uplifting, inspirational, occasionally heart-breaking and full of lovely posts, people, stories and books. Looking at the list of contributors for this year, I’m sure there will be more of the same so I really encourage you to go check it out
So…this has nothing to do with romance. But if you follow me on Twitter, you know I was baking a cake this weekend. A vanilla malt cake with pretzel malt crunch, white chocolate ganache and cookie butter buttercream. And of everything, it seems to be the cookie butter buttercream that is attracting the most attention.
A Fashionable Indulgence by K.J. Charles is the start of her new Regency series, The Society of Gentlemen. Harry Vane, son of socialist revolutionaries, has just discovered that he could be the heir to a fortune. But first he has to win over his grandfather, who has big plans for the young man, including marrying
