10 Books I Loved In 2022

December 22, 2022.Reading time 18 minutes.

For the second year in a row I hit my goal of reading 100 books, I inform you with great smugness. 35 were romances, 8 were Stephen King novels, and more than one were comics volumes.

On Holding Hands

November 2, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

There’s an intimacy to holding hands. I don’t know anything like it.

“What a Wallflower Wants” Is a Ground-Breaking Romance Novel for the #MeToo Moment

December 7, 2017.Reading time 16 minutes.

This gorgeous romance novel can teach us a lot about how to honor the experiences of survivors, stand up to perpetrators and acknowledge the flawed social norms that allow rape and harassment to thrive.

Writing The Other Love: Intimacy in Hookup Erotica

January 12, 2015.Reading time 8 minutes.

What do we call the non-loves? Or the almost loves? Or the could be loves, if things were different, if we let ourselves?

Book Review: Hot Highlanders and Wild Warriors

November 17, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

So here’s a little known fact about me: I really like a good historical romance. Sure, genre romances usually follow a predictable formula and lack complicated character development, but there is something comforting and satisfying about sinking into a huge page-turner full of lush description and sexual tension. Generic historical romances are my cotton candy. […]

flash fiction: tinder tale

August 30, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

They match on Tinder because they recognize each other from high school and both think it will be funny and harmless to swipe right. He messages her to ask what she is doing here, so far away from their stuffy little hometown, and she answers (career opportunities more affordable) on her walk home from work. […]