Invited to provide a companion essay to the Black Romance Podcast’s interview with romance author Beverly Jenkins, I was honored, nervous, and excited (fangirling actually).…
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The recent calls for #WeNeedDiverseRomance and #OwnVoices have created some change but not enough regarding the representation of people of color in the industry and…
Comments closedThe Bodyguard, a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, circulated around Hollywood for decades. Written by Kasdan for Steve McQueen, the first actress thought to match McQueen’s…
Comments closedA Houston, Texas, native and graduate of Texas Southern University, Vivian Lorraine Stephens (1932-) has been a romance aficionado since her teens. In the 1940s,…
Comments closedHow It Began Introductions are, by their nature, signposts. Signposts that guide readers, provide informational cadences, and justify what falls between page one and page…
Comments closedGeorgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction (2021), edited by Samantha J. Rayner and Kim Wilkins, is a varied and pleasant read: the approaches are sometimes…
Comments closedFrom the title to the overall framing of the collection, Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today’s Classroom (2015) leans into the contested status…
Comments closedIt’s not often that an academic research project successfully and meaningfully combines literary analysis, creative writing, and sociological research. These two publications – one a…
Comments closedA prolific Welsh romance novelist of the early and mid-twentieth century, Berta Ruck wrote approximately a hundred novels between 1915 and 1970. Although her novels…
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