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Do Romance Novels Have to Be Explicit?
Not all romance novels are explicit. Discover the difference between sweet, moderate, and steamy romance and how to choose books you will love.
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Falling for Romance, Action, Suspense & Humor
I was eleven when I fell in love with romance. Audrey Hepburn wasn’t the first actress who helped that happen. Probably. Maybe. The order of movies and books is a bit confused in my memory. I already loved to read and had connected The Moonspinners movie with the book by Mary Stewart, but the movie…
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Why I Wrote Romance Short Stories
I love romance novels. Don’t hate me (well, you can if you want). I have a romantic soul. I love happy endings. I love cute meets, surprise meets, dangerous meets, first kisses, last kisses—and most of all, I LOVE happy endings. When I realized I wanted to be a writer, I decided that I would…
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Bring on the Romance
Today is Valentine’s Day. If you missed getting the memo, well, I’m here to help you out. It’s Valentine’s Day. If you haven’t got your significant other a card, well, you still have a little time to fix that. It’s funny, but I don’t get upset if the hubs forgets. (He also forgets my birthday and…
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16 Interesting February Facts
I have a love-hate relationship with February. It’s a short month that tends to raise expectations that it can’t always fulfill. Apparently, I’m not the only one who finds February…interesting. I did a search and came up with some (sort of) interesting facts about this complicated month. 1. February can’t seem to make up its…
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Classic Romance and Me
I’m not entirely sure when I became a romantic. I was pretty young when I started loving romantic movies and books. I know I was too young to BE in love, but I wasn’t too young to BELIEVE in love. I know the YA fiction I read back then was barely romantic by today’s standards.…
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We All Need Romance in Our Lives
I recently had an occasion (not a great one) to be at the hospital and while one of the aides was showing me how to get to where I needed to go, she asked me about my Area 51 handbag. I told her I wrote scifi and no, I hadn’t stormed Area 51. She said,…
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Story Dreaming
Stories come from a lot of different places, for me at least. Twice stories have come from very vivid dreams. One was a novel called The Last Enemy and the other was a short story called “Almost Over You,” from my lone romance anthology, Let’s Fall in Love. The “Almost Over You” story was so…
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Love is all Around
…You almost can’t escape the love. At least, not here in Houston. There are stuffed animals on almost every intersection. If you don’t know it’s Valentine’s Day, you’re in hiding. LOL! Here’s hoping that you have a very Happy Valentine’s Day and one that doesn’t disappoint. If you have time, leave a comment. They are…
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I’m in the Mood for Love
I was always pretty romantic. I played with Barbie dolls and Barbie always married Ken, but I wasn’t romantic about the real boys in my life until puberty short circuited most rational thought. It’s the only way I can explain that delusional period affectionately referred to as the high school years. I can still remember…