category romance

How Your Mama’s Category Romances Are Burning Up the Charts

How Your Mama’s Category Romances Are Burning Up the Charts

see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz! Category titles disguised as single title books are burning up the Kindle/Nook charts. The existing category covers appeal to existing category readers but those readers who so clearly love books like The Marriage Bargian, Wife by Wednesday, the Danvers Series, and(…)

What Sunita is Reading in late September and early October

What Sunita is Reading in late September and early October

I’ve been reading for review,  trying out new authors and trying to find more self-published work. I seem to be partway through an awful lot of books. It’s a mixed bag in terms of content and quality. Reckless Runaway At the Racecourse, by Ros Clarke. Ros and I follow each other on Twitter and she offered(…)

Is Our Attention Span Getting Shorter?

Is Our Attention Span Getting Shorter?

A few months ago, Harlequin category (or series) romances appeared on the USAToday list. The reason for this is two fold. First, Harlequin is now assigning individual codes to each book so that the sales of each book can be tracked individually instead as a general category of “book”. Second, more category books are being(…)

Thursday Midday Links: Here Come the Category Bestsellers

CES opened last night with the keynote address from Microsoft.   They touted new slate forms of computing.   The HP slate is purportedly going to have a sub $500 price. Come to mama, I say. Matthew Bernius, at the Open Publishing Lab, is keeping track of all the publishing related CES announcements. There are a plethora(…)

Tuesday Midday Links

Maili is guesting over at Victoria Janssen’s blog home about her favorite category books. Sadly so many of them are out of print. I’ve read all but one of the stories recommended by Maili and they are worth hunting down and not just because Jane is the heroine in one of the books. Really. You(…)

Tuesday Night Links Round Up: Jessica says categories are the Iron Chef of romances

Tuesday Night Links Round Up: Jessica says categories are the Iron Chef of romances

Harlequin is going to allow us to purchase the vintage cover paper goods. Woot. I am ordering some of those matchbook notepads and some of those little paper booklets and postcards and WHERE IS MY COFFEE MUG??? Seriously, Harlequin heard our voices, you guys! It’s Western Week in blogland. Kristie J started it off. First(…)

Confess Yourself: Are you a closet category romance reader?

Confess Yourself: Are you a closet category romance reader?

I received a press release from Harlequin a couple of weeks ago about the online version of the Romance Report that I made fun of last year. The theme was confessions. This year, though, I figured it would be just too easy and I would just be repeating the myself. But my recent reading of(…)