Jessica is a recovering MA student, still trying to find a way to make her trained brain forget some of its rigid academic parameters. Unable to move her study of romance novels to the PhD level she turned instead to blogging about them. Constantly. Until she finds that dream book job she's surfing an administrative desk, and wracking her fingers at the keyboard writing about the books she loves.
You may not know the term by name, but you've probably seen one. Learn about the origin of clinch covers on romance novels, and why this reader loves them.
With Halloween on the way, one reader considers why we don't have a horror romance subgenre, and why a genuinely scary romance is so hard to come by.
"I could talk for hours about Alanna and Tortall. Days really. Longer, given that I’ve been pushing it on all my reading friends for *mumble mumble* years."
It's a pointless question. But if you're a romance reader you've probably been asked it at least once: Why do you read romance novels?
Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda are bringing us Mary Poppins again!
To the romance detractors out there, romance novels are not junk food. A reader on why we need to stop dismissing romance as fluff.
'Tis (almost) the season to be creepy, so check out these necromancer romance novels with spooky, fall-worthy themes and elements.
Did you know Beverly Jenkins, Lorraine Heath, Meg Cabot and more authors wrote Avon romances aimed at younger audiences? Take a look!