NPR

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As the weather turns cooler and we start to emerge from summer's torpor, it's time for some faster-paced romances with plenty of exciting twists and turns on the way to the happily-ever-after.

TIME

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AS IN THE REGENCY-ERA ENGLAND OF JANE AUSTEN’S novels, women in the city of Kano in northern Nigeria are on the cusp of radical social changes, as globalized development pulls against conservative Islamic traditions. To help make sense of changing ti

The Writer

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We seldom think “beauty walk” when considering a writing conference, but just before the Chicago Spring Fling Conference – sponsored by Chicago-North’s chapter of the Romance Writers of America – novelist Elizabeth Kingston will escort interested att

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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The mum-of-two lives in Whangaparaoa, near Auckland. She’s a Weekly senior sub-editor who also writes romantic thrillers under the name Brynn Kelly. This novel was inspired by… “A hankering to set a story on a tropical island, to get that trouble-in-

DIVA

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I’m bisexual, and while most of my serious, long-term relationships have been with men, I’m also really attracted to women and non-binary people. Before coronavirus, I had an active and interesting sex life. In the last few years, I’ve started going

ArtAsiaPacific

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Noor Mohammed, a lower-class Muslim businessman—the alter-ego of Anita Dube, who could be identified as a middleclass Hindu woman artist, but whose life and practice seeks to blur such boundaries—tells us that it’s his lucky day; he’s been given 15 m

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Susan Choi PAGES 257 GENRE Fiction IT FEELS STRANGE TO SAY THAT SUSAN CHOI—FINALIST for the Pulitzer Prize, lauded novelist for decades—is at last having her moment. But then, she’s never produced a book like Trust Exercise before: a gonzo l

India Today

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Editor Amrita Narayanan spent two years combing through erotica ranging from the Kama Sutra to Tarun Tejpal's Bad Sex Award winning novel, The Alchemy of Desire, for her new collection. She spoke with Anita Roy about what she discovered. Q. When (and

Writing Magazine

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Melissa Oliver has won the RNA’s Joan Hessayon Award. Melissa’s debut, The Rebel Heiress and the Knight, was awarded the RNA’s £1,000 prize for new writers, which is given to a writer whose first novel has been completed after passing through the Rom

NPR

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In Mike Chen's debut novel, a time-traveling secret agent is stranded in the past and has to live out a normal life — including a family — that becomes a problem when he returns to his own time.

Woman & Home

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This is the best handbook for ordinary life in the 19th century and one of the greatest Victorian reads. Aside from giving us an insight into the human struggle for pleasure, it explores all of life, from art to science, politics and romance. A 20th

NEXT

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If I had a page of text for every time I’ve heard something along the lines of, “I would totally write a romance novel, if only I had a spare weekend,” I’d have a workable draft by now. It’s not that easy, of course. But like the genre itself, the li

SFX

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▶ RELEASED OUT NOW! 432 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook ▶ Author Anna Kashina ▶ Publisher Angry Robot As a romance, Shadowbladeisn’t particularly romantic, and as a fantasy it isn’t fantastic either. The setting, all deserts and schools of scholars

The Guardian

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A collection of erotica offers a saucy insight into the sexual pursuits and passions of our forebears

Guernica Magazine

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Critic, essayist, and poet Wayne Koestenbaum talks about the reissue of his only novel to date, Circus, while offering a glimpse of his art works, unpublished writings, and family archive. The post Wayne Koestenbaum: “I use obscene as a term of prai

Writing Magazine

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‘I’ve always had a creative drive, from ignoring Lego instructions as a kid and building my own object, to writing bad poetry as a teenager, to writing bad songs later on. ‘In my mid-twenties I read a lot, especially speculative fiction, and I had id

Writing Magazine

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It will soon be St Valentine’s Day, so I decided to check out the Romantic Novelists’ Association and find out about the state of romantic fiction in 2020. Luckily the current chair, Alison May, was happy to chat to me. ‘The RNA is sixty years old th

Writing Magazine

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The team at The Writer’s Block are looking for short stories for an anthology for YA and NA readers but you’ll have to write fast: the deadline is 10 March. Aesthetic: A Dark Academia Anthology is to be published as an Amazon ebook and print version.

The Guardian

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Romantic novels have long ignored LGBT writers and readers, but theses are stories that need to be told

Literary Hub

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It’s a rule of publishing that you don’t complain about your blurbs. If a fellow author is going to take the time and effort to read your book and offer a quote, you accept their words gratefully and graciously. So, I kept my mouth shut when I got a

Writing Magazine

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‘My first two contemporary romance novels, Rock My World and Hero or Zero were published digitally by an ebook publisher based in London, but like many writers, I always dreamt of a traditional publishing deal. ‘From an early age, I loved writing and

Writing Magazine

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Champagne Books is a Canadian indie publishing electronic and trade paperback books specialising chiefly in romance and its sub genres, as well as SF, fantasy, NA and YA. The editorial team want entertaining exciting stories ‘to transport readers to

Literary Hub

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“What do you suppose happened to all the beatniks?” mused a blonde freshman as she drove me back to San Francisco after my reading in Berkeley last year. Well sweetie, some of us sold out and became hippies. And some of us managed in preserve our int

Literary Hub

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I met Supergroup for the first time in the fall of 2008. Or rather, I met the members of Supergroup that fall, in a class at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis called “Working on Your Novel.” We wouldn’t officially begin to call ourselves Superg

SFX

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RELEASED 2 APRIL 384 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Claire McKenna Publisher Harper Voyager Not into romance in your fantasy novels? Fear not. Despite the title, this is very much a tale of Gothic passion, more akin to Rebecca or Jane Eyre i

Writing Magazine

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Golden Fleece Press publishes ‘exemplary, amazing stories across all genres and subjects, about all kinds of people’. They ‘love the quirky, and the fantastic, and the weird… We love subtle stories, and stories about everyday people who do extraordin

Writer's Digest

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In publishing, “The End” is just a lie. Once those words appear on the page there is celebrating to be done, for sure, but also an acknowledgment that new work is just beginning. Writers are, generally, not salespeople (although you may be surprised

Writing Magazine

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Dark Edge Press is a new independent digital-first fiction publisher. ‘We publish full-length genre (crime, romance, historical, contemporary, up-lit) and literary fiction,’ said publishing director Louise Mullins. Hybrid author Louise originally set

Writing Magazine

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Winners of the prestigious 2020 Romantic Novel Awards, presented by the Romantic Novelists’ Association, are: Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award, for the best novel by a first-time author: Lorna Cook, The Forgotten Village Libertà Books Shorter

The Atlantic

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Season 3 of Amazon’s show is funnier than ever as it portrays a couple negotiating serious issues with a smirk.