My husband’s the youngest of four boys. If I were a romance novel heroine, that would mean I’d have plenty of dating opportunities if anything awful happened to my husband. As a real woman, that thought fills me with the ickies. Dating two people in one family is a common theme in contemporary romance. Kristin… Continue reading Keeping it in the family: when a heroine dates brothers
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5 reasons I wish I were a romance heroine
Many of us romance readers wish we had the same things the heroines we read about get: a beautiful man who adores us, a close community of friends, fantastic sex, and a guaranteed happy ending. But a tweet from Lauren Plude, editorial assistant at Grand Central Publishing, got me thinking. Lauren wrote: “One of the… Continue reading 5 reasons I wish I were a romance heroine