Reading Round-up: 2018
Here we are at the end of the year. Between drafting and re-writing on two different romance novels, I’ve written over 100K words — plus all the words that have …
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Lessons learned from the Mid-Twentieth Century Love Stories
I’m done with the Mid-Twentieth Century Love Stories unit of the Romance MFA Reading List! What have I learned in the months it’s taken me to work through all of these …
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Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone
Way back in April, after I’d finally made it through Gone With the Wind, I wanted to make sure that I did some follow-up reading that was not written by white …
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Author Interviews from the Romance MFA Syllabus: Margaret Mitchell
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 and E.M. Hull. Today …
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Here’s part two of my pulp cover round-up, featuring the titles in the Mid Twentieth-Century Love Stories unit of my reading list. (Last week I shared covers for the Romantic …
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Forever Scarlett: Similarities between Gone With the Wind and Forever Amber
As I noted in my last post on Forever Amber, it was brought out with much fanfare by Macmillan, who also published Gone With the Wind and were entirely transparent …
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What to read after Gone With the Wind
As I discussed in my first post on Gone With the Wind, Mitchell’s epic is not aging well (though here’s an astute piece on the Washington Post on why it’s …
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Romance Tropes in Gone With the Wind
Despite the pronounced lack of happily ever after, Gone With the Wind is on a lot of people’s lists as a romance novel. So it’s no surprise that there are …
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