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    The 2020 Ripped Bodice Diversity in Publishing Report Sees Slight Improvement

    The 2020 Ripped Bodice Diversity in Publishing Report Sees Slight Improvement

    By Lori Perkins This year marks the fifth year that The Ripped Bodice, the country’s first all-romance bookstore (located in Los Angeles)...
    Editors of Bi Any Other Name Anthology Honored at this Years’ PFLAG Queens NY Luncheon on Feb. 28th

    Editors of Bi Any Other Name Anthology Honored at this Years’ PFLAG Queens NY Luncheon on Feb. 28th

    By Lori Perkins Due to the pandemic, the PFLAG Queens NY Annual Luncheon could not be held in person his year, but the event will go on a...

    A Christmas Reading List

    By Cardyn Brooks Christmas, Festivus, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Winter Solstice, whichever is being observed, the inhabitants of Romancelandia...
    J.M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson Were Flirty Pen Pals

    J.M. Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson Were Flirty Pen Pals

    By Lori Perkins As we sit on our computers writing emails to each other, and maybe writers we admire, we learned from The Guardian that 1...
    Bronx Book Fair and LAMBDA Lit Fest Go Digital

    Bronx Book Fair and LAMBDA Lit Fest Go Digital

    In this year of the plague, all our favorite book fairs and literary events have gone digital. While book lovers miss sitting in the aud...
    Dr. Fauci Was the Hot Scientist 
Inspiration for 1991 Romance Novel

    Dr. Fauci Was the Hot Scientist  Inspiration for 1991 Romance Novel

    Image taken from White House coronavirus briefing Sally Quinn, celebrity journalist and widow of Washington Post Managing Editor Ben Brad...
    Queer Fairy Tale Survives

    Queer Fairy Tale Survives

    image taken from @petejordiwood instagram Looking back at the past, it seems, at first glance, there are no queer fairy tales. Now, one w...
    RWA Announces Rules and Dates for Submissions for The New Vivian Award

    RWA Announces Rules and Dates for Submissions for The New Vivian Award

    On the eve of the annual Romance Writers of America (RWA) convention, RWA has announced the opening of submissions for its first annual V...
    Guest Post: Wielding Historical Accuracy Against AOC

    Guest Post: Wielding Historical Accuracy Against AOC

    Recently there was a bit of a blow up on Twitter when a white author questioned the historical accuracy of an Afro-Latinx author’s upcomi...
    British YouTuber Sell Children’s’ Book Based on COVID Poem

    British YouTuber Sell Children’s’ Book Based on COVID Poem

    Tomos Roberts, a 26 year-old British poet and filmmaker, created a simple “Princess Bride”-esque fairly tale about life before and after ...
    Guest Post:
Writing About Historical Racism is Not “Controversial”

    Guest Post: Writing About Historical Racism is Not “Controversial”

    There is something fishy in the state of (historical romance) Denmark, and I feel compelled to let people know about it. Scrolling throug...
    Men Who Read Romance

    Men Who Read Romance

    Whenever I would hear men say “What do women want?” or “I don’t understand women,” I have always said to myself, “why don’t they just rea...
    Authors Respond to the Black Lives Matter Protests

    Authors Respond to the Black Lives Matter Protests

    image taken from users on TikTok who have been changing their profile pics to this As we enter June, protests regarding Black Lives Matte...
    Book Expo Goes Online

    Book Expo Goes Online

    Image taken from website Book Expo America (BEA), the annual conference for the publishing industry that usually takes place in the last w...
    Actor Peter Gordon Writes His Wife
A Poem Everyday

    Actor Peter Gordon Writes His Wife A Poem Everyday

    Image taken from the poem section of the website A Love in Verse They say if you’re ever loved by a writer you’ll never die. That was cer...
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