I just returned from my first trip to RWA Nationals in New York City! Let me tell you, it was an amazing experience. I don’t think I had a single down moment (except when I was walking out of a party with Joanna Bourne and couldn’t make the elevator work–mortifying). (Oh, or when Carole Mortimer
I had high hopes of getting another post up before I had to leave for RWA on Wednesday, but that’s sooo not going to happen. Instead I’ll just that if you’re going, I hope to see you there! I’m not bringing many treats with me to the conference (travel and all), but I did throw
Despite issues with sexism, racism, lack of consent and other problematic elements of older romances, there’s something I like about them that I have been struggling to articulate. While reading this week’s 2U5S book, Brand of Possession by Carole Mortimer, I think I figured it out. This is not Mortimer’s best book by any stretch
This month’s TBR Challenge theme was RITA winning or RITA nominated books, in honor of this month’s RITA awards. Unfortunately, RITA winners and I don’t have a great track record. As I was skimming the lists, I recognized several books I absolutely loathed. Of course, I loved Carolyn Crane’s Off the Edge from last year
I did a little summer blog cleaning this week and Cooking Up Romance has a new location and a new look! The site is now here: http://www.cookupromance.com so old bookmarks, feeds and email subscriptions will no longer work (sorry about that). Basically: You’ll need to update your feeds: http://www.cookupromance.com/feed/ and bookmarks: http://www.cookupromance.com because the old
The theme for this month’s TBR Challenge was More Than One: a book by an author you have more than one of in your TBR pile. So I chose Love Only Once, the first book of Johanna Lindsey’s acclaimed Malory Family series. I also have Tender Rebel (which I’m trying to read, but good grief
Today I’m reviewing Elizabeth Hoyt’s Darling Beast with Ana Coqui from Immersed in Books. This has become a regular series for us, though we’re not on any specific schedule. Thus far we have reviewed Living in Sin by Anastasia Vitsky and Entreat Me and Radiance by Grace Draven. We hope you enjoy reading our
When I started this project a month or so ago, Jenny Haddon said this 1980 Sara Craven book was the first Harlequin to include “full docking procedures” (Haddon’s term, which I adore). However, Possession, the 1979 Violet Winspear Harlequin Presents I reviewed two weeks ago, included married sex. Possession may have been published after this
This morning I’m thrilled to bring you a guest post by Willaful, one of my very favorite romance bloggers and a long-time category romance reader. Her post is on 1983 Harlequin Presents SIROCCO by Anne Mather. We’re skipping ahead a bit in time because this post builds on some of what we discussed last week:
About six months ago, I got an email from romance writer Alexis Hall. He wanted to know if I’d consider developing a lemon meringue pie recipe for this kinky book he was writing about a chef and a doctor. Of course I agreed and therefore ended up helping with this book, For Real (out everywhere
