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The Power of Reader Communities: How Goodreads Choice Awards Influence Romance Literature

Contests, Reading, The Romance Industry, Writing Awards / December 29, 2024 / Emily Henry, Goodreads, Goodreads Choice Awards / 4 minutes of reading

Let’s talk about something we all know and love: the romance reader community. If you’ve ever swooned over a hero or squealed over a perfectly written grand gesture, chances are you’ve shared that excitement somewhere—with friends, book clubs, or, more likely these days, online. And one of the biggest platforms for romance fans to connect is Goodreads. It’s where we track our endless TBRs, leave reviews, and, every year, collectively lose our minds over the Goodreads Choice Awards.

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Why Don’t Romance Cover Characters Look Like Their Descriptions in the Book?

Intriguing Heroes, The Romance Industry / December 8, 2024 / AI, Covers / 4 minutes of reading

If you’ve ever picked up a romance novel and thought, “Wait, that’s supposed to be the hero? Didn’t the author say he has a scar, dark curls, and a brooding stare? Why is this guy blond and smirking like a toothpaste model?”—you’re not alone. Romance readers have been puzzling over this for decades. Let’s unravel

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Why Best-Seller Lists Are the Worst Way to Find the Best Romances

Reading, The Romance Industry / November 24, 2024 / Best Seller Lists, NYT Best Seller list / 4 minutes of reading

Of course, you’re on the hunt for the best romances out there. Nobody picks up a book thinking, “I hope this is mediocre.” But here’s the thing: using best-seller lists, “top author” rankings, “Best of” compilations, or any similar lists to find great romances? That’s one of the worst ways to discover the truly amazing

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Other Places to Find Good Books: Kickstarter and Other Crowdfunding

Reading / November 10, 2024 / Indiegogo, Kickstarter, Patreon / 4 minutes of reading

If you’ve been in the book community for any length of time, you probably already know that publishing has transformed in a huge way. Digital books, self-publishing platforms, and audiobook giants have given authors so many new avenues to share their stories with you. But let’s step off the well-trodden paths of traditional publishing and big online bookstores for a moment and explore a more exciting alternative: crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Patreon.

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Other Places to Find Good Books: Direct Sales

Reading / May 19, 2024 / Book Bundles / 6 minutes of reading

This is Part Nine of a series: The current economy, world-wide, would be better served, everyone keeps telling us, if we buy local, and buy direct. But we (you and me) buy ebooks. How do you buy them locally? Buying from an author, when they offer their books for sale directly from their site, is

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The Highest Glass Bridge in the World

Uncategorized / April 28, 2024 / Albano Pass, Georgia, Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon bridge / 2 minutes of reading

You KNOW I’m going to put this into a book somewhere! I came across my notes about this bridge in my notebooks this morning, and paused to study it again. This is the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon bridge in China. And yes, it is made out of glass. So as you walk across the very deep

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Where to Find Fantasy Romance

16 Comments / Fantasy Romance, Reading / April 21, 2024 / Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, BISAC Categories, Google Play Books, kobo / 9 minutes of reading

Where to Find Fantasy Romance (Other than the Fantasy Romance shelf) Regardless of which retailer you use to acquire new books, do you shop for books via the categories? Or the search bar? Often, you know exactly what book you want, and a quick search is good for that. The title has been recommended, or

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A Most Romantic Sinking

2 Comments / Historical Stuff / April 14, 2024 / Jaws, Peter Benchley, shipwrecks, The Deep, The Indianapolis, The Lusitania, The Spanish Treasure Fleet, Titanic / 4 minutes of reading

Today, in 1912, and very close to midnight, the RMS Titanic grazed past the iceberg that would eventually sink her, nearly three hours later. Tomorrow will be the 112 anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Most of us have a romanticized perception of the Titanic, thanks to the James Cameron movie. But the Titanic

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Other Places to Find Good Books: Book Bundlers

Reading / April 7, 2024 / Book Bundles / 3 minutes of reading

This is Part Eight of a series: Book bundles are enormous fun. You get a stack of books for a price that is usually much less than you would pay if you bought each book individually. Retailers will also bundle books — usually all the books in a series. Google Play and Amazon do this

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It’s Just a Job: Fairies (2024)

2 Comments / Fantasy Romance, Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy / March 31, 2024 / brownies, fae, fairies, pixies / 2 minutes of reading

An update on a very old post! (As this site goes back twenty years now!) –t. Fairies, or the Fae, have multiple sources within mythology, and come in a vast range of shapes and sizes, from small pixie-type creatures to human-sized ones, from fair to ugly, to human in guise, to demonic-looking. Fairies can

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