Category Archives: genre musings
The Worst Best Man, by Mia Sosa
Writing up my February TBR Challenge review, I lamented that my romance TBR, mostly acquired a few years ago, is so white. Recently I’ve been trying a few recent, more diverse choices from the library to see if that might … Continue reading
Pride & Joy
One of my jobs as department chair is to re-read assessment test essays that fall into a specific gray zone (the essays are usually scored by a computer; don’t get me started on this). I find it difficult, because the writing … Continue reading
Unpopular Opinions
This week saw yet another “what’s wrong with Romance” post. If those posts are written to a script, so is Romanceland’s response, and indeed the predictable cycle followed: tweetstorm erupts critical comments posted on article [optional for online only-publications: half-assed-apology/justification, … Continue reading
Your Best Reading Experience of the Year So Far
Last week on Twitter, Miss Bates asked “How old were you when you read your first romance? Name it, please!” She got a lot of great responses, and followed up with a wonderful blog post (which also got great responses). … Continue reading
Directed Reading? The Romance Author and Her Audience
There’s been lots of tweeting about this Ravishly interview with Kathleen Gilles Seidel today, and I said it would be a great topic for further discussion on a blog post, so of course I found myself volunteering to write one that … Continue reading
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