A friend recently sent me a YouTube series of a reader/reviewer absolutely sending up one of Colleen Hoover’s books. I highly enjoyed the series, and it further cemented my decision to never, ever, ever touch a book by Hoover.At the tale end of the series, the reviewer made jokes about how the novel’s heroine seemed to be running away from the male lead. Our intrepid protagonist left her...
The idea that people are really into getting freaky with eldritch horrors is not news to me. I’ve been kicking around in anime fandoms, and we all know that tentacles are going to come up at some point. There’s also, of course, Rule 34, which means that if it exists, there will be porn of it on the internet.It just seems that lately, that kind of fantasy is maybe a bit more … mainstream. You know...
So. Heated Rivalry, huh? ‘Nuff said. Pucking hockey … (Tony Schnagl / Pexels.com) I haven’t read the books, nor have I seen the show, so I can’t really comment much on whether it’s “good” or if I liked it or not or anything. And, at this point, I’m not sure I can stand to watch it—there’s a lot of, hmm, how shall we say? Feels going on for me there.What kind of feels? Oh, you know …...
The surprise pregnancy trope gets a lot of hate from romance readers. What is it about this trope that sets us off?
Book covers are an important tool for authors to communicate to their readers what their book is about. But what do readers expect to see?
"Don't judge a book by its cover!" Yet we're all doing it, all the time. Which is why authors need to invest in their covers.
I’ve seen quite a few books marketed as “low-angst” lately. And don’t get me wrong—a fluffy story can be something quite enjoyable. But … the label makes me a little anxious. Legends and Lattes is an example of low-stakes fiction. Why? Because any time I’ve read a “low-angst” book, the label masks something a little more nefarious. What Is Angst, Anyway? Angst is a loan word from German. It was...
It's July, which means we're halfway through 2026. What do I have in store for you?
We've been using m/m romance to describe fiction featuring a relationship between two men for ages now. Why can't we move past it and adopt a better term?
File this under "you have got to be kidding me": someone who really should know better implied all non-shifter mpreg is omegaverse.
