Author Archives: Serena Bell

I read Cecilia Grant’s A Lady Awakened in a trance, a state not unlike swimming through the deepest layers of a dream. I rarely reach that layer of involvement in my reading—not in “literary” and not in romance—and it’s the … Continue reading →

OK, if no one else is going to say it, I am. One of our favorite romances of all time—Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander—is a Wonkomance. Maybe. I’m not sure. In support of the argument, Outlander has: A virgin hero An older heroine … Continue reading →

Does wonkiness interfere with the escapist quality of romance? Or to put it another way, if you write heroes and heroines who are more real, whose conflicts are deeper and wounds more intense, do you risk waking people out of … Continue reading →