Celebrate—or protest—Valentine’s Day with a Melville House romance … wherein the protagonists usually die. Whether you want to celebrate love or your singularity, now through Valentines Day, we’re offering a… Read more »

There’s so much wretchedness in the world these days, and we hate to add to your ennui, but answer this: if romance writers can’t insert penis euphemisms into their titillating titles, WHAT IS… Read more »

Discerning readers of tasteful smut are slowly raising the alarm: Amazon has, without notice, been reclassifying and un-ranking a variety of erotic writing. Samantha Cole at Motherboard has done some… Read more »

Romance writing has done the impossible. Hard to say how this even happened, but…  it’s gotten whiter. This is from the second of two annual studies done by the Ripped Bodice, our fair nation’s… Read more »

The year is winding down, and we’re officially on hiatus. eut, seeing as how internets gonna internet, we’re using this time to look back on some of our favorite posts… Read more »

Sex sells, as they say, and the Amazon-owned audiobook publisher Audible is, if not a fast learner, at least a conscientious one. In an effort to promote their new romance… Read more »

Early on in the Cheryl Brooks novel Slave, the protagonist travels to a distant planet where the entire female population is enslaved by men. In order to avoid detection, she… Read more »

He was “mad, bad and dangerous to know” but a new restaurant located inside Lord Byron’s ancestral home is focussing on his romantic nature, and asking its staff to do… Read more »