Romance

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (861+ words) In Oprah’s 125th Book Club pick, a stranger moves into 12-year-old Sofia’s bedroom, arriving without explanation—and with a taut, round belly. “But, baba, my stuff,” I said, thinking about my books, my gel pens, my watercolors, the turquoise seahorse Lena…...

2+ hour, 59+ min ago   (695+ words) The writer and director talks exclusively with Bazaar about his new behind-the-scenes book of annotated scripts, I’ll Believe in Anything But not in the hands of Jacob Tierney, the award-winning screenwriter, director, and creator of Letterkenny and Shoresy. On November…...

3+ hour, 37+ min ago   (413+ words) Ignition Press is bringing back its Valentine's Day-style romance anthology for a second year with Love Ignited 2027, a roughly 48-page collection of short stories exploring love in its many forms, passionate, parental, cosmic, and otherwise. The book is expected in…...

16+ hour, 35+ min ago   (207+ words) Book Riot There’s definitely a vibe among romance readers that historical romance is in a downturn. Some might even say historical romance is dead. I will admit, it seems like there are fewer and fewer historical romance novels coming out…...

9+ hour, 35+ min ago   (745+ words) By Sam Macdonald edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier One of science fiction’s oldest themes is its insistence that the future isn’t inevitable. Few contemporary authors embody that idea more than Becky Chambers, whose stories imagine alternative futures—not through grand…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (564+ words) As someone who mostly reads novels by female authors (a group Nathaniel Hawthorne once dismissed as “that damned mob of scribbling women”), and now as a card-carrying member of that cabal myself, I’ve always been fascinated by the ways in…...

13+ hour, 31+ min ago   (171+ words) Nobody really prepares you for the quiet moments after publishing. You imagine readers discovering your work, sharing their favourite scenes, debating your characters’ questionable decisions, and eagerly asking when the next chapter will arrive. You imagine building a little community…...

14+ hour, 50+ min ago   (407+ words) Most of the time we’re joking in that particular “lol” language of the internet, where everything is exaggerated until it’s not. But reading The Cut's recent essay about becoming "addicted" to Heated Rivalry fanfiction made me wonder why the language…...

20+ hour, 7+ min ago   (27+ words) Held, hold … love on loop #2 (2023) by Christine Wilkinson - For Sale Artsy Where control softens and something poetic emerges Held, hold … love on loop #2, 2023...

19+ hour, 33+ min ago   (270+ words) A local publishing company celebrated Jane Austen's birthday once more with a tea party filled with live reading, live music, a raffle prize, and some scrumptious treats and — naturally — some warm teas. Plumleaf Press, an independent publisher based in Bronte,…...