Irene Davis's Blog, page 2
July 22, 2019
Author Interviews from the Romance MFA Syllabus: Daphne Du Maurier
This is part of an ongoing series to find interviews with authors whose books appear on the Romance MFA syllabus. Previous installments have featured E.M. Forster, E.M. Hull, and Margaret …
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July 8, 2019
Julia Quinn’s The Viscount Who Loved Me
Last time, we learned from Johanna Lindsey that large families can be hilarious. So why not make an even larger family for even more hilarity? While this may sound implausible, …
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June 24, 2019
Johanna Lindsey’s Gentle Rogue
I think I would have enjoyed Gentle Rogue much more if I weren’t still cringing and jumping at the slightest shadows after Whitney, My Love. Gentle Rogue is the sort …
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June 10, 2019
Judith McNaught’s Whitney My Love
When I was putting together the Romancelandia Glossary, “wall banger” was one of the terms that was new to me. My mother, who worked in a library while pregnant with …
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May 27, 2019
State of the Author – May 2019
The Romance MFA is two years old! Time to take stock and assess the State of the Author. (You can read last year’s assessment here.) Reading Since last May, I’ve …
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May 13, 2019
Romance Podcasts
May 2019 update to the romance podcasts list: with 18 new additions and a few considered deletions, the list currently has 82 entries. I haven’t managed to sort out a …
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April 29, 2019
Romancelandia Glossary: A Guide to Romance Abbreviations and Terms
It doesn’t take very long in Romancelandia to notice that there are an awful lot of romance abbreviations, slang words, and terms specific to the genre and discussions about it. …
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April 15, 2019
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
A recent bout of food poisoning means a sick day read: Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. I read it sometime in my adolescence and not since, but Alcott’s been on …
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April 1, 2019
The Georgette Heyer Romance Novel Formula for Success
This is it! The magic key that we’ve all been looking for — the romance novel formula that blockbuster author Georgette Heyer used to produce dozens of best-sellers. Thanks to …
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March 28, 2019
Supporting Diversity and Behavior Change in Romancelandia
Last year, I wrote a post about Behavior Change in Romancelandia. This was after The Ripped Bodice’s Diversity in Publishing Report came out and I had just read Gone With …
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