Posted by: fshk on: October 17, 2009
I am both a romance reader and a history nerd, so you can imagine the little thrill I felt when I stumbled upon this post on Racy Romance Reviews about Kathleen Winsor, “a romance foremother,” who wrote a book that frankly sounds awesome, if only because the Massachusetts government tried to ban it. In honor [...]
Posted by: fshk on: July 29, 2009
Jane at Dear Author has a post up about first lines that pulled her into good romance novels. She lists a bunch. I bet you can think up some classics on your own, everything from “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want [...]
Posted by: fshk on: May 21, 2009
This is an unpopular opinion, but I am not a huge Jane Austen fan. I read a lot of Austen when I was in high school, in part because all those movies came out around that time: IMDb tells me that the Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma all came out [...]
Posted by: fshk on: December 31, 2008
For those of you still reading magazines made of dead trees, there’s an article in the current Bitch about Lois Duncan, the author of YA thrillers, among which are I Know What You Did Last Summer and, a personal favorite, Stranger With My Face. I just got the issue (the “Noir” issue) and it looks [...]
Posted by: fshk on: September 9, 2008
Dear Author did another one of those “If you like X, you’ll like Y,” where X is such a good writer that there’s no one really comparable. This time they tackle one of my favorite writers, Jennifer Crusie, so if you want a run down on her novels, check it out. (Although my personal favorite [...]
