A too-zoomed-in, oddly-angled, cluttered shot of Thai Beef Tacos from my first recipe review. Well, guys, as it turns out, doing hard things is actually…uh…HARD. I spent a good portion of January feeling frustrated, discouraged and overwhelmed. But I also had a lot of good things happen. And the good news is that despite what
Under His Touch by Jeffe Kennedy is a May-December boss-subordinate office romance, a setup that is complete catnip for me that nevertheless has epic potential to go really far wrong. I love huge age gaps in my romance (my husband and I are ten years apart) and I love the realism of office romances. But
Let’s talk about meal planning. Wait, what? How does that have anything to do with romance? Well, it doesn’t. Except that instead of stopping at the grocery store every night on your way home from work, perusing the aisles for dinner ideas, you could be home reading. Or writing. Or whatever you do. Mainly I
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
When I saw that this month’s TBR Challenge was short stories (category romances included), I knew I had to sign up. See that pile of categories up there? Well, there are stacks more like it. I really love category romances from the 70s, 80s and 90s and I live in a place where I have
Emma Barry is one of my favorite romance writers. And I’m not just saying that because she’s a friend. She’s one of those writers who could write cereal box copy and I’d read it and love it. But add in the romance and politics and Washington, DC settings of the Easy Part series and this
I’m a pretty cerebral romance reader. It’s rare that I read one book by an author that so transports me I can’t write anything intelligent about it, much less two. So when it comes to Alexis Hall’s work, I’m three books in and still struggling to write anything coherent, both because it’s just not how
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
A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong was eagerly awaited by this avid Cecilia Grant fan. Her Blackshear Family series is one for the few currently publishing Regency romance series I have consistently enjoyed. I love that her characters get into interesting scrapes and yet still feel like historical romance characters, not
