“At Love’s Command,” a novel by Christian author Karen Witemeyer, originally won the VIVIAN award for romance with religious or spiritual elements. The book opens with its hero taking part in the ...

There was a time when every romance novel was referred to as a “Harlequin,” and the field was reserved for megastars like Nora Roberts and Danielle Steele, churning out endless streams of best-sellers ...

Carly Pifer, the founder of Aurore, shares the biggest cliches she sees in erotica and mainstream porn — and how to write better sex scenes.

In 2016, there was exactly one bookstore in America dedicated to romance novels. Now, there are more than 20 across the country, and romance authors like Colleen Hoover, Rebecca Yarros, and Sarah J.

Romance writers put up with a lot. Their work is often dismissed, the validity of their success doubted, and even their intelligence questioned. “People will literally say because you write romance ...

Even if you don't read romance novels, you probably think you know romance novels. From the Harlequin books of the 1980s through the bodice-rippers prominently featuring Fabio (or Fabio-adjacent) ...

Romance writers came into Christine Larson’s life at an inopportune moment. As a graduate student at Stanford University and mother to two young children, Larson suddenly found herself navigating an ...

Writing under the pen name Ilona Andrews, husband and wife team Ilona and Gordon Andrews have published more than a dozen books together since meeting in their college English class back in 1994. If ...

Recently various commentators, myself amongst them, have pointed to the present crisis of art criticism. Some older publications have been rebooted or even closed, and there is general awareness of ...