by Laura K Curtis | Apr 19, 2017 | Books, Romance, TBR Challenge
I do dearly love a little magical realism with my contemporary romance and women’s fiction, so when Alice Hoffman’s The Probable Future went on sale a while back I greedily snatched it up. Of course, I have no self control, so I was up until 3am reading...
by Laura K Curtis | Jan 8, 2016 | Books, Recipes, Romance, Stuff!
I am super happy to invite you all to join me, Penny Watson, and Lexxi Callahan at our new website, Happy Heart Reads! It’s a place for comfort reads, good food, cocktails, music, puppies…anything that lightens your heart. Things I’ve already learned...
by Laura K Curtis | Jan 1, 2016 | Books, Romance, Stuff!, Writing
2015 is going out on a decidedly easier note for me than it came in on. But many of my friends are not so lucky. To anyone who’s feeling the pain right now, I offer a shoulder and an ear and anything else I have that you need. This time last year, I was leaning...
by Laura K Curtis | Nov 7, 2015 | Books, Romance
Last night I was re-reading Madam, Will You Talk?, which I haven’t read in, oh, probably ten years. As happens (to me, at least), although I remembered the main plot, there were plenty of things I’d forgotten. One of them is that our heroine, Charity, lost...
by Laura K Curtis | Oct 22, 2015 | Books, Romance, Writing
Lately, there’s been a lot of chatter about reclaiming the word “smut” in the romance community. I tried to have a conversation about this on Twitter, but 140 characters (or even 280 characters) doesn’t really cut it when you’re trying to...
by Laura K Curtis | Jul 7, 2015 | Books, Romance
Warning: TL;DR post filled with questions without answers ahead. Romancelandia is fond of self-examination and since I come from an academic background, I often find discussions of what books are or are not capable of fascinating. When Fifty Shades came out, and to a...
