Wow! Romancelandia is coming to my home town! I couldn’t just let this pass unnoticed, especially not when so many writers and reviewers and romance-focused academics are coming here to Washington, DC for a visit. The occasion is the What Is Love? Romance Fiction in the Digital Age conference at the Library of Congress on
Category: Ephemera
The Year of Doing Hard Things
I’m hereby dubbing 2015 “The Year of Doing Hard Things”. I’m not trained as a chef or a photographer or a book reviewer or a graphic designer or a web developer. I spent most of my career in marketing. Marketing for small organizations is a funny sort of discipline. I ended up teaching myself
How Much I Don’t Know: A Queer Romance Month Reader Wrap-Up
It’s nearing the end of Queer Romance Month. I’ve been reading every single post since the beginning of the month (the ones on the site and a lot of the companion posts on other sites too). I’ve followed a ton of new people on Twitter and Goodreads, started reading some new blogs, read several books
Welcome to Cooking Up Romance
Welcome to Cooking Up Romance! I’ve loved romance novels since I first discovered Julie Garwood’s Highland books in junior high. Until recently, Regency historicals were pretty much all I read, but then I discovered Jackie Horne’s Romance Novels for Feminists blog and my reading has branched out considerably since then. For a couple of months