AnimeJune's First Ever Corny Cliche Hatefest

SPOILER WARNING: In my Cliche Round-Ups, I often tend to go into explicit detail about plot points that occur at or near the end of romance ...

"The Price of Desire," by Jo Goodman

The Chick: Olivia Cole. Cut off from her father and stepmother, she lives quietly with her irresponsible brother Alistair until he trades h...

SUBMITTED: My Application and Portfolio

...to the University of British Columbia for their Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing. I finally did it. I've been fiddling...

"The Duke Next Door," by Celeste Bradley

The Chick: Deirdre Cantor. Since she was sixteen, she's been in love with Calder Marbrook, the Marquis of Brookhaven (and heir to the ai...

"The Serpent Prince," by Elizabeth Hoyt

The Chick: Lucy Craddock-Hayes. An innocent member of the country gentry, she discovers Simon Iddesleigh lying in a ditch - naked, unconsci...

Whoring For Books

Regular visitors to my site will notice that I've added a few book widgets to my blog - first, I added Julie Anne Long's Like No Oth...

In the "That's Just WRONG" Category:

I've been looking up new romance authors on the internet. Even though I've been reading romances for well over a year now, I'm s...

"A Dangerous Beauty," by Sophia Nash

The Chick: Rosamunde Baird. As a teenager, she was caught stealing a kiss from a duke's son, but refused to marry him and eloped instea...

"The Heir and the Spare," Maya Rodale

The Chick: Emilia Highhart. An American heiress, she travels to Britain to try and land a titled husband in order to please her industriali...

That Special Music Redux

A few days ago, I mentioned how I'd finally come across a musical score I'd been hearing since I was very little but had never been ...

CLASSIC REVIEW: "Clarissa," by Samuel Richardson

The Chick: Clarissa Harlowe. Beautiful, fashionable, kind, loyal, with an unimpeachable moral character, this third child of a wealthy, unt...

"Goddess of Spring," by P.C. Cast

The Chick: Carolina "Lina" Francesca Santoro. A lonely forty-something divorcee whose bakery faces financial ruin, she is contacte...