Can we help a reader find a book they've lost track of? The description sounds a lot like some flavor of category romance, especially with the length, but I don't read enough of those (and definitely not enough of the Christmas-themed ones) to help.
@romancelandia So Dr Vivanco blog post called attention to a couple of Lisa Kleypas' books that, from the reddit discussions, were heavily edited to eliminate scenes with dubious consent; the problem is, there's nothing to indicate this was done.
Like.
At all.
YIKES y'all.
They could have added content warnings in a foreword, ffs; this is...wow. not it.
Our very own Robin Bradford @tuphlos in conversation with Professional Book Nerds Podcast:
"Emma is joined by librarian, Robin Bradford, to chat about her book, The Reader's Advisory Guide to Romance. They also chat all things Romancelandia, how to talk about spice levels, the cyclical nature of romance trends, libraries, and a bunch of recommendations! "
Via @Shelflove on twitter:
""We don’t get to say that the romance novels we consume are getting better and less racist or less problematic just because we’ve stripped them of anything that makes us uncomfortable."
@herhandsmyhands@Shelflove@romancelandia It is not just historical novels. How many contemporary novels lack any content on the issues of racism, misogyny, bigotry, fascism, violence, or social inequity? But I need my escapism.
@romancelandia
Found via @tuphlos on twitter, this piece has some blood pressure-raising bits; the most important is the assumption that changing the covers of genre romances of different heat levels/sexual content, changes the actual content.
"oh, these books that are no longer coded erotic romance are actually good stories/writing/characters, but I couldn't have known unless they had acceptable covers" is a thing said there.
whenever people talk about having "no politics or religion" in their "entertainment", I think of how fucking intellectually lazy they have to be not to come up with a better fig leaf for they complicity.
These people basically say, "if you read these and like them, you deserve violence, so we'll protect your from yourself y controlling your every fucking breath"
@romancelandia
Via Love Sweet Arrow:
We are thrilled to celebrate romance icon Beverly Jenkins, in conversation with local authors Sean D. Young and Sherelle Green at the Tinley Park Historical Society on 11/11 at 2:00pm!
Via Love Sweet Arrow:
We are thrilled to celebrate romance icon Beverly Jenkins, in conversation with local authors Sean D. Young and Sherelle Green at the Tinley Park Historical Society on 11/11 at 2:00pm!
Via Love Sweet Arrow:
We are thrilled to celebrate romance icon Beverly Jenkins, in conversation with local authors Sean D. Young and Sherelle Green at the Tinley Park Historical Society on 11/11 at 2:00pm!
Gotta admit, though, that typography on the title is gorgeous. I'd have picked up the book just for that back in the day. It does need a tiny echo on the curl of the W, though.
As a voracious reader who has a very tight budget and doesn't mind trying new authors: I wish to hell that publishers understood that they would get a lot more of my money, now and in the future, if they made first-in-series books accessible.
If you price all books in a series at $13 or more in digital, you are guaranteeing I won't be able to try, unless I remember to ask at the library.
@romancelandia To contrast with the post above, here's what happens when you start an ARC for the second book in a series, and look up the first, and find out it's 99cents: you buy it, knowing nothing about it, on the strength of liking the one you are reading (and are barely 13% in).
The other book I really liked that's 4th in a series but all titles cost $13 and up, digital? Most likely I won't seek them out again.