The Ripped Bodice's annual racial diversity in romance report came out last week. Unsurprisingly, the results were dismal. Romancelandia is usually super vocal on Twitter, but this year, the commentary was...muted. I have to admit I wasn't surprised by the results, but I was still disappointed. I came out wondering what I can do as a…
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99 Percent Mine Isn't the Hating Game and Here's Why That's a Good Thing
Sally Thorne’s follow up to the Hating Game, 99 Percent Mine, has a sunshine yellow cover with purple text, but that bright cover doesn't totally match up with story. Thorne's latest has a…
This peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich will totally make sense when you read Overnight Sensation by Sarina Bowen.
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Holy Heck in a Handbag! The Team Charmer Finally Meets His Match in Sarina Bowen’s Sizzling Overnight Sensation
We got glimpses of the charmer that Jason Castro…
We're unveiling the cover for HANDLE WITH CARE by Helena Hunting today, giving you a first glimpse of the the next book set in the sexy, hilarious world of Shacking Up. HANDLE WITH CARE is due out August 27, 2019 from St. Martin's Press.
In the meantime, if you haven't met Bane, Lex and their piece-of-work cousin…
As the year starts, I have 37 titles on my TBR across genres. I narrowed it to 11 in romance and women's fic that I'm really looking forward to this year. As you might expect, it's gonna be a busy summer reading season. While romance still has work to do on the diversity front, this…
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The One You Fight For is Brave, Raw, and Chillingly Relevant
It 2018, it was a risky proposition to come out with a romance series based on a group of friends who survived a school shooting a decade earlier. But Roni Loren’s The Ones Who Got Away…
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Christina Lauren Keeps It Sexy as Their Rom-Coms Evolve
In MY FAVORITE HALF-NIGHT STAND, Millie Morris and Reid Campbell are two friends in a group of academics on the faculty at UC Santa Barbara. With the commencement banquet on the horizon, the gang decides to dive into dating…
This year’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday book deals didn’t do much for me, which means hopefully I’ll have a few more dollars to spend on December new releases. Usually as the year winds down, I use December to catch up on books that I meant to read, but didn’t. The thing is, the…
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He's Not My Boyfriend is Jackie Lau's Best Yet: More Laughs, Medium Angst. Totally Irresistible.
Jackie Lau's previous books have looked to forced proximity to get hero and heroine together. In her latest, HE'S NOT MY BOYFRIEND, it's straightforward. An initial meet in a craft beer bar turns…
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FIREWORKS Is the Sweet and Sizzling Sixth Installment in Sarina Bowen's True North series
They say you can’t go home again. In FIREWORKS by Sarina Bowen, Skylar Copeland left Colebury, Vermont 12 years ago and never looked back. But after an on-air gaffe at her TV job,…
