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Sexuality is a very perverse thing, and frankly (in case none of you noticed) it doesn’t tend to be all that pc. Just look at the 1970’s label bodice-ripper, which the media still plasters onto many a romance featuring a man and a woman. The connotations are unpleasant — a man ripping off a woman’s [...]
It’s In His Kiss opens with a prologue from the hero’s point of view, which is absolutely appropriate because after reading this book, I ended up thinking it was one of the funniest portraits of a man I’ve ever read. Gareth is a guy—a real guy. How unusual is that in romance these days? I [...]
I get asked advice all the time by beginning romance writers. “What can I do to get published?” they ask me, their faces strained with earnest passion. “If I write every day…If I take twelve writing courses…If I pay for an editor?” They want me to tell them the secret handshake, the formula, the way [...]
I’m a huge fan of Connie Brockway’s McClairen’s Isle series. Every detail plays to one of my favorite romance themes: the island in Northern Scotland, the proud rakish men (and their fascinating and witty sister), the dissolute castle nicknamed “Wanton’s Blush.” I recommend all three novels, but my favorite of the series is The Passionate One, [...]
I love Lisa Kleypas’s novels: she writes some of the smartest, most heart-felt romances I’ve ever read. There are a lot of romances in which the stakes don’t seem very high. There’s passion—but not that fierce sense that this time, it’s not going to work out. Love in the Afternoon is one of my very [...]
Memory loss is one of the biggest plot clichés – the more so because it never really seems to happen in real life. One hears about people losing their memory of an accident or a mugging, but only very rarely do they lose memory of everything. But in fiction? Bring on the amnesia! Over the [...]
I always think it’s really interesting when an author sets up a character with a major flaw. I should clarify that by saying that I don’t consider flawed rakes to be very interesting. Frankly, there were apparently so many rakes in London that Home Depot would have sold them off for a dollar each (ha). [...]
The sad truth is that I read this book three times – before it was published. It’s not as if I’m desperate for reading material, either. I have the novels for my Barnes & Noble column to read, and then all those novels that I might put in the column, but realize half way through [...]
Do you know what makes getting the flu acceptable? (And no, it wasn’t the swine flu…been there, coughed that, have the antibodies). It was the regular, uninteresting flu, and the only good thing about it was that I had five – FIVE – Elizabeth Hoyt novels waiting for me on my tbr shelf. So I [...]
This summer, my daughter tried sleep-away camp for the first time. How many ways can one spell the word DISASTER? She was so excited beforehand: she had her bag packed a week early, all the white tennis clothes in piles, along with the pink shirts that were supposed to prove that she was a girl [...]
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