Presidential romance
The Obama campaign marked the 20th anniversary of the marriage of Michelle and Barack Obama by releasing a commemorative video. (Note: The Popular Romance Project does not endorse either presidential...
View ArticleLibrarian by day
As the title of this post probably tells you, I’m a librarian for my day job. I don’t normally wear my hair in a bun, but I do sport a pair of glasses and have been known to shush people while at the...
View ArticleNot that type of girl
Once upon a time (make that five years ago) in a little village (okay, a conference hotel in a region with a population of 1,000,000) I attended a romance writing conference. As we walked through the...
View ArticleRomance in black papers
I solidified my love for books secretly reading my mother’s historical romance novels at 11 years of age. Nothing is unusual about this experience except that I was a young African American girl...
View ArticleCirculating romance
Librarians are sort of used to being stereotyped. We’re used to friends and families thinking that we sit around all day and read. Our days are filled with luxury and kind, calm patrons who adore us...
View ArticleFeeling “sheiky”?
The sheik or desert romance category is dominated by American authors these days but this was not always the case. The British invented the desert romance subgenre in the early 1900s with novels such...
View ArticleThe preview scene
Have you ever wondered about the brief scene that is printed on the opening page of a category romance novel? Extracted from the main story, this scene usually depicts a paradigmatic romance moment—the...
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