Black romance writers: The authors remain the same year after year, so if you have a newsletter, get the word out. Here’s the link to the poll.

For a moment I was inclined to agree that the reason “those people” don’t read AA romance is because of the stigma against the genre, but my involvement on a post by Clutch Magazine, entitled “Selling Ghetto” made me think otherwise. Based on the comments, the readers of this online magazine targeted to upscale black [...]

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Reviews for the following books coming soon: A Gentleman’s Offer by Dara Girard The Spiritualist by Megan Chance The Iron Hunt by Marjorie M. Liu Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs Bite the Bullet by L. A. Banks From Dead to Worse by Charlaine Harris

I took a little break for summer and also because reading just wasn’t fun anymore! Reading a book with the intention to review it, and even spending tons of time on the AAR message boards discussing books, made the thought of buying something at the store exhausting. I’ll still do a little reviewing, but mostly [...]

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For some random reason, MSN features a poll asking people if they read romance novels. If you vote in the affirmative, you’ll be clicking the circle that says “Yes, yes, yes! Bodice-rippers are my ultimate escape.” Two strikes against romance readers in that short answer. One, the media persists in calling the entire romance genre [...]

The funniest video I’ve seen yet in 2008! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY&hl=en] The Dance Mix

A well-known aphorism tossed around by scholars and history buffs alike is “history is written by the victors.” From this I conclude the phrase to mean history is only about white people (aka, the “victors”). A few weeks ago or so, I stumbled across a blog written by a guy from the South who stated [...]