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Review: Embracing Midnight by Devyn Quinn

by Susan S. 02.18.2011

By Susan S., guest reviewer Today is a Double Dose of Devyn Day! Back to back reviews! Embracing Midnight is Devyn at her best. A sinful, sizzling “fast-paced” page turner! Come…, as I invite you to walk along the darker side of romance. Prepare yourself for the “ultimate” good vs. evil novel. This novel, solidified [...]

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Romance Novels Will Improve Your Vocabulary

by Keira 09.24.2010

Non-romance readers are probably thinking, that’s a pretty bold statement to make. Additionally they’re probably snorting derisively and thinking about all the euphemisms used across much of genre for sexual congress and body parts. Well they’re not wrong about the wide variety of clever (and not so clever) terminology we’ve developed for ourselves, but they [...]

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Groveling Heroes or Heroes Most in Need of Humble Pie

by Keira 09.17.2010

There’s a split in romance readers when it comes to the groveling hero. It’s a like or hate thing (as indeed most tropes and themes are). It comes down to preferences and point of views. For the purpose of this post I am going to define a groveling hero as a hero who gave a [...]

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Reader Highlight with Kati of Katidom

by Keira 05.02.2010

Keira: You pick up the phone and on the other end is your all time favorite romance author offering to write you a story just the way you want it – setting, names, character types, time period, genre, etc. Which author is it and what are you going to have them write? Kati: Great question! [...]

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It’s All In the Swing…Or My Theory On Why Romantic Suspense Isn’t Making Me as Rich as Croesus

by Guest Blogger 04.29.2010

by Tracy Cooper-Posey, guest blogger and author of Dead Again Everyone knows the historical romance market is dead, dead, dead. I’m tempted to protest that there should also be warning signs that the romantic suspense market (or romantic intrigue, if you prefer that moniker) has also been rolled into the palliative care ward and a [...]

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Vampires, Then and Now. . .and Then

by Guest Blogger 04.20.2010

by Cassandra Pierce, guest blogger and author of Heirs to Darkisle. The early descriptions of vampires that have come down to us through folklore, provide a stark contrast to today’s hunky, bare-chested bloodsuckers who no longer necessarily suck blood. It’s true that some of the old, scary vamps sometimes ran around shirtless (they might, for [...]

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It Feels Like Love and It’s Magic

by Guest Blogger 03.04.2010

by Mary Margret Daughtridge, guest blogger and author of SEALed with a Ring Marriages of convenience—romance fans love ’em, but when I tell people who aren’t romance readers that SEALed with a Ring: Sometimes you get a lot more than you bargained for is a contemporary romance with a marriage of convenience plot, you’d be [...]

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2010′s Top 50 Romance Novel Blogs part 3

by Keira 02.25.2010

Continuing on with the Top 50 New Romance Novel Blogs of 2010… Here are 10 more blogs to visit, say hi to, and fall in love with! Don’t forget you can subscribe to both lists with this Google Reader Romance Novel Bundle. Lusty Reader – She lusts for books, especially romance novels. Misadventures of a [...]