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Jessica Tripler

Jessica Tripler is an academic who lives in Maine. Follow her on Twitter @jessicatripler.

‘Tis the Season for Holiday Romance

If you like holiday-themed romance, you’ve got a ton of choices right now. Here are a few worth checking out: ...

A Look Back at The Hunger Games Movie Posters

Now that all four films based on Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy are in the can, let’s take a ...

Inspiring Words by Writers for NaNoWriMo

National Novel Writing Month, better known in social media circles as #NaNoWriMo, is upon us once again, and for the ...

Reading Pathways: Nora Roberts

I’m going to go out on a very sturdy limb and say that this is the hardest reading pathway any ...

The Ripped Bodice: A Kickstarter for a Romance Bookstore

The first exclusively romance bookstore will open in L.A. next spring if all goes according to Bea and Leah Koch’s ...

Some Like It Hot: The Literary Function of Sex Scenes in Romance

One-handed reading. Mommy porn. Naughty books. Guilty pleasures. As a romance reader I’ve heard it all. I wonder if critics ...

Why We Need More Abortion Stories in Our Fiction

I read a lot of novels with adult women protagonists. But I hardly ever come across abortion in my reading, ...

Will It Suck? Everest Edition

It took almost twenty years, but the first feature film chronicling one of the worst disasters in the history of ...

Hot Or Not: Trends in Popular Romance

At the The Romance Writers of America (RWA) national conference in New York City, I talked to readers, authors, and ...

10 Upcoming Romance Books to Get Excited About

I’m just back from my first trip to the annual Romance Writers of America National Conference (RWA). So many authors, ...