Today’s Romancing the Blog entry by Charlene Teglia is a love-letter of sorts to alpha heroes. I don’t mind alpha heroes, as long as they don’t segue into “jerk” territory.  But I’m seeing a lot of false conflation in the ensuing discussion—and I’m by no means innocent of it, either. People who don’t like alpha heroes immediately equate them with jerkholes who consistently mistreat the heroine, sometimes (in the older romances, anyway) raping her unrepentantly. … Continue reading Alpha Beta Soup →