Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

Under the Gun by HelenKay Dimon
I’ve never been a huge fan of the Intrigue line because I felt that even full length romantic suspense books struggled to fit both romance and suspense in one story, how could a compressed format do both topics justice? Under the Gun had a good balance of both the [...]

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The puce-colored punch looked like poison, but she didn’t care. Grace braced herself and took a swig of it anyway [...]

We are already into round 2.  The voting link is here. EVEN IF YOU DID NOT FILL OUT A BRACKET, you can still vote.
The voting schedule is in 12 hour blocks to accommodate people in all timezones.  My instructions were apparently hard to read last time so I’ll try to make it a little [...]

I thought it might be fun to share with the readership the top ten lists of various readers, authors, and publishing professionals in the romance community.  It’s a way for us to get to know each other’s reading tastes a little and find out about books we may have never read but should.
Today’s list comes [...]

Dear Ms. Betts:
I came across your book cleaning out my towering stash of review copies that needed sorting and sending out to the reviewers. I read the back and realized that it had a hockey hero. I love sports books and I set it aside to read. When I opened, it however, it [...]

Train Man (Densha Otoko) 2005
Genre: Romantic comedy
Grade: B+
One of the first manga reviews that Jan did for us was about this story. But since I’m not a manga devote, I’m afraid I didn’t recall it until after I had already decided to try this movie via Netflix. While I’m still not a manga fan, [...]

Dear Ms. Balogh,
A friend loaned me A Chance Encounter, one of your earliest books. Given that the book is twenty-five years old and does contain a few elements that I associate with romances from that era, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I know some of your traditional regencies are [...]