by Sherwood Smith Father’s Day is one holiday that definitely embraces the married man. I was thinking about that switch from prowling single guy to paterfamilias the other day, after I found the sequel to a novel I’d enjoyed. … Continue reading
Category Archives: romance
Shannon Donnelly’s writing has won numerous awards, including a RITA nomination for Best Regency, the Grand Prize in the “Minute Maid Sensational Romance Writer” contest, judged by Nora Roberts, RWA’s Golden Heart, the Laurel Wreath, the Winter Rose, the Bookseller’s … Continue reading
Founding member of BVC, Phyllis Irene Radford announces the print release of her new book “Thistle Down” by Irene Radford from DAW books. E-books available at all the usual suspects. Thistle is a Pixie with a problem. She lands in … Continue reading
BVC’s own romance super-star Patricia Rice blogs about “the book of her heart,” EVIL GENIUS for Romantic Times Book Reviews. READ A FREE EXCERPT BUY THE BOOK (ready for all major eReaders, including Kindle) … Continue reading
The recent brouhaha about an anthology (in which a number of authors withdrew their stories after one author was told to change her M/M to heterosexual) highlights for me how much power an editor has in establishing the tone of … Continue reading
I admit, I’ve been dancing around this one a little bit. But sooner or later, when writing a sex scene, there’s going to have to be a description of the body parts involved. If there is a portion of literature … Continue reading
This is the post where I consider sex seriously. In the past few years there has been a rapid expansion of the portrayal of explicit sex in the romance genre. As it stands, pretty much anything goes. There are few … Continue reading
Marissa Day guest blogs on LOVE AND THE REGENCY at Monica Burns’s blog party. Think it was all dances and younger sisters behaving badly? Think again… NOW AVAILABLE FROM BERKLEY HEAT: The Seduction of Miranda Prosper by Marissa Day Read … Continue reading
What I am about to say will not come as a surprise to any reader of these words who also happens to be an adult human being. People engage in sexual activity for a wide variety of reasons. Some are … Continue reading
There are a limited number of adjectives in the language that can be applied to sexual acts. There are even fewer that can be applied without eliciting guffaws of laughter. And I was recently in an email exchange where an … Continue reading