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2022 Romance Podcast List Update

It’s true! After a two year hiatus, I’ve managed an update of the Romance Podcast List, with over one hundred active podcasts and more than seventy archived podcasts tracked in …

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Romance Podcast List 2020 Update

if you see something, say something *unless it makes racists feel sad

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they deserved an HEA!

Martial Arts Romance

Georgette Heyer and Author Finances

The political context of Angelique

Love in Occitan Troubadour Poetry

Love in Occitan Troubadour Poetry

Fin Amor and Courtly Love

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Romance genre hot take generator

Have you read the latest hot take think piece on romance novels? Romance Twitter was all atwitter about it yesterday.  I only skimmed over it briefly because, as Cat Sebastian …

Romance Tropes in Gone With the Wind

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Author Interviews from the Romance MFA Syllabus: Daphne Du Maurier

This is part of an ongoing series to find interviews with authors whose books appear on the Romance MFA syllabus. Previous installments have featured E.M. Forster, E.M. Hull, and Margaret …

Resources on Romance Novel Plotting

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if you see something, say something *unless it makes racists feel sad

Romance Writers of America and Racism

It’s been quiet here since I spent October finishing a book draft, then jumped directly into Nanowrimo to write another one which is just about finished and I was going …

State of the Author – May 2019

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Beard Science: the attractiveness of male facial hair

I’m working on my third Whitford Crew book and came to a place where I had to go back and count how many days it had been since my hero …

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