by Laura K Curtis | Aug 6, 2013 | Books, Romance, Writing
I blame Twilight. Closely followed by its fan fic, 50 Shades. But lately, it seems that everywhere I look I see romance novels populated by stalkers and abusers, general alpha-holes, who wouldn’t make it past my front door. These are guys who won’t take...
by Laura K Curtis | Aug 1, 2013 | Books, Romance
Here we are again, in a familiar place for readers and writers of romance—with someone denigrating both romance fiction and its readership. This time, it’s Kelly Bohan, an intern at the Missouri Review, who decided for some unknown reason to critique a genre she...
by Laura K Curtis | May 19, 2013 | Books, Romance
I originally wrote this as a comment on a post over at Heroes and Heartbreakers, but I felt as if it deserved a post of its own because so many people in my personal community are talking about NA. This post is slightly modified from that, for both clarification and...
by Laura K Curtis | May 13, 2013 | Books
I’ve been fascinated by the idea of Total BooX since the first time I read about them, so the other day I when got an email saying their site had gone live, I immediately hurried over to see what I could see. Total BooX is a pay-as-you-read service. Instead of...
by Laura K Curtis | May 7, 2013 | Books, Romance, Stuff!
Head on over to YouTube for the lyrics, which are below the video. This absolutely cracked me up.