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Link Roundup

September 05, 2010 | Sunday | 37 Comments

Thanks to Kristen Painter and many others who forwarded me this link of irate rantage on my part. Now, I’m the first to admit there are ridiculous romance novels. I got your Pregnesia right here, baby. But while Evil Librarian Supervillain’s list of the 21 Most Ridiculous does highlight some truly bizarre romances, at the same time, I’d like five minutes in the stacks so I can smack her with her library science degree for the part where she dismisses all of romance as “the terrible smut genre.” Even though her knowledge of “The Very Virile Viking” makes me suspicious… read more »

On the role romance novels play

July 25, 2009 | Saturday | 54 Comments

I’ve been thinking a lot about the role romance novels play for its readers and authors ever since reading Teresa Medeiros’ inspiring and heart-wrenching post about why she writes romance novels. If you’ve been buried underneath some sort of Internet rock and haven’t read it yet, go have a look-see. That piece does more to allay doubts about the power of popular fiction to make a substantial, beautiful difference in people’s lives than anything I’ve read in recent memory. A few things Medeiros wrote caught my eye, however, and started my brain spinning in all sorts of loops. Forgive me… read more »

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