Season for Surrender by Theresa Romain is a smart, light-hearted, slightly unconventional historical romance. On the face of it, it’s a bluestocking heroine and a rakish hero meeting up at a holiday house party on the shaky basis of a wager between the hero, Lord Xavier, and his equally disreputable cousin, Lord Lockwood. Louisa is
A Midnight Clear by Emma Barry and Genevieve Turner is a FREE prequel novella to their Fly Me to the Moon series, 1960s-set historical romances with astronaut heroes. This novella is set in the late-1940s, a bit before the start of the rest of the series, and features young love, motorcycle riding, sailing, dinner party
One of the things I worry about when I post baking projects is that people might not have all the right equipment. I’ve got a pretty well-stocked tool cabinet, but I’m also a pretty serious baker. I’ve been through several iterations of bowls, measuring cups, thermometers and all sorts of ingredients to find just what
My friends Mary Chris Escobar, Julia Kelly and Alexis Anne invited me to join them for the December edition of their web show First Draught, where they talk about the craft of writing paired with a monthly special drink. So tune in tonight, December 1st, on Youtube at 8:30 PM EST where I’ll be sharing
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
