Category Archives: Talking Wonkomance

The Next Big Thing Wish List

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Do you read? Do you love zombies or the men who fight them? Vampires who for some reason hang around high school girls? Kinky rich dudes? Then you my friend have been loving the shit out of the past few … Continue reading →

Posted in Recommendations Needed, Talking Wonkomance, Writing Wonkomance | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 46 Comments

On Escapism in Historical Romance

Posted on November 8, 2012 by

I recently read Carrie Lofty’s His Very Own Girl, and it has thrown me into a mental tizzy regarding historical romance and escapism and what on earth it is I want from the historical subgenre. Such a tizzy, in fact, that I kind of … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical Wonktastical, Talking Wonkomance | 60 Comments

Jondalar: Father of All Alphaholes

Posted on October 18, 2012 by

I always tell people that the first romance novel I ever read was a Loveswept — Joan Pickart’s Warm Fuzzies, which has a hero named Acer Mullaney who talks to a six-foot-tall teddy bear created by the heroine, Lux Sherwood. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical Wonktastical, Talking Wonkomance | 23 Comments