True love’s kiss
A kiss is just a kiss. . . or is it? No single fairy tale motif is more pervasive in American popular culture than “true love’s kiss.” It is the archetypal mechanism of transformation in our...
View ArticleLady Jane’s Salon
Romance authors read aloud from their work on the first Monday of every month in the Soho district of New York City. The cover charge for Lady Jane’s Salon is $5 or “one gently used romance novel.” Net...
View ArticleFiction Fest and local RWA
Last weekend, I drove from Boston to Connecticut to meet writers and agents and readers at Fiction Fest, the annual conference of Connecticut’s RWA (Romance Writers of America) chapter. I set up my...
View ArticleThe National Book Festival
The Library of Congress invited Eloisa James to talk at the 2012 National Book Festival, making her the first romance author to speak at the festival. She claims that genre fiction transforms...
View ArticleMany different lives
In first grade, a teacher praised her reading and set Debbie Kaufman on the road to becoming a lifelong reader. Reading let Kaufman experience a “number of different lives,” beginning with the magical...
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