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What Do Writers Do?
By David T. Valentin “So, what are you going to do with a liberal arts degree?” one might ask a wide-eyed and naïve student going into...
Joan Didion Passes Away at 87 Years Old
By David T. Valentin Just before Christmas, the American author, novelist and essayist, Joan Didion, passed away at 87 years old. The...
Guest Post: Anne Rice's Homoerotic Vampires and Gay Culture
By Ryan Field Anne Rice passed away at 80 last week. She was the author of 40 novels, and was most well-known for her ground-breaking...
Guest Post: FIND ROMANCE FOR THE HOLIDAYS
By Melody Johnson “We all need a little escape from reality sometimes, and I hope this anthology of short stories will help readers get...
Riverdale Avenue Books to Publish Two Holiday Anthologies--Found Family and SantaCon
By Lori Perkins Have you always wanted to write a Christmas/holiday story? Now is the time. Riverdale Avenue Books, the award-winning...
Augustine Frizzell To Direct ‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue’ Film
By David T. Valentin It was only a year ago when The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab debuted and took almost every reader’s...
It’s NaNoWriMo Again – The Greatest Time of the Year!
By Lori Perkins How amazing it that an entire nation (of writers and people who love and support them) is focusing on writing fiction...
Comic Con Panel Discusses Female Driven Characters in Sci-Fi and Fantasy
By David T. Valentin On Friday I had the opportunity to attend a panel titled, “Building Worlds for Women: Wattpad Books Authors on...
New York Comic Con 2021
By David T. Valentin With the pandemic still negatively impacting hospitals across the United States and vaccine records being a point of...
Romancelandia Raises Funds for Afghan Women and Haitian Hurricane Relief
By Lori Perkins Image Taken from Adriana Herrera's Website Right now, there are two online romance fundraisers taking place: Romance for...
Book Review: Maggie Finds Her Muse by Dee Ernst
Maggie Finds Her Muse by Dee Ernst Reviewed by Cardyn Brooks Contemporary romantic women's fiction Warm ★★★★★ In this madcap meta...
Anne Rice’s Vampires AND Witches are coming to AMC
By Lori Perkins Before there was Twilight and True Blood, there was Louis and Lestat and the child vampire Claudia, created by Anne Rice...
RWA’s First Vivian Award Winners Announced But Not Without some Controversy
By Lori Perkins As most of you are aware, Romance Writers of America (RWA) has recently been through some hard years, even before the...
“Cat Person” and Blurring the Line of Fiction and Reality
By Rachel Zimny The short story “Cat Person” by Kristen Roupenian was published almost four years ago in The New Yorker and was...
Review: Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation A Real Bromance
By Lori Perkins For those who were alive and reading in the late 20th century, Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams were fixtures on the...
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