Loving this!

Two Nerdy History Girls (aka, Loretta Chase and Susan Holloway Scott) at the Ashland Public Library in MA:

#GenreRomance #HistorycallyAccurate

https://youtu.be/B_pviLv3brg

Steve Ammidown, RWA's Librarian of the Year for 2019, is a genre romance historian who does important work on preserving a history that has too often been considered trivial, when not outright erased.

Cue his latest blog post on men writing genre romance:
https://romancehistory.com/2023/01/26/men-who-write-romance-ken-casper-1941-2021/

#GenreRomance #GenreRomanceHistory

I've been screaming about this for years.

This will eventually hit straight genre romance, so if you don't care because queer people deserve respect and a life free of persecution, you may want to care before it's your livelihood and freedom on the chopping block.

Yesterday would've been better, but today is enough.

#USPolitics #Transphobia #GenreRomance

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/north-dakota-weighs-ban-sexually-explicit-library-books-rcna66271

If your romance hot take is that 'men and women are opposites" and genre romance should not "give readers ~unrealistic~ expectations" of relationships between these two genders...

...well, you have bigger issues than not understanding fiction, genre, or romance.

#GenreRomance

Via Suzanne Brockmann on twitter:

#SEALTeam10 #SusaznneBrockmann #TallDarkAndDangerous #GenreRomance

A @Charlotte_Stein twitter thread on the same vein:

#GenreRomance #Romancelandia #SusanMeachen

#GenreRomance #Romancelandia #CockyGate

I'd love romances where people drink when they go out or when they get together for dinner or a party, but who can spend days, especially during the work week, having nothing more stimulating than coffee and/or tea, where people don't expect to be offered wine the moment they cross someone else's threshold.

Where drinking is an afterthought, not the norm.

I've love that.

#GenreRomance #Reading

@VerityInkEditorial asks here https://romancelandia.club/@VerityInkEditorial/109638033255048121 whether someone is writing genre romances without "scenes where alcohol is at the center", and I'd like to add: I don't drink, but even when I lived with my parents, who had a nice wine and tequila collection that they offered to guests and family for dinner or parties, no one would get home and immediately grab some wine.

And yet, so many contemporary main characters do that apparently every day.

#GenreRomance #Reading

Someone please start using polyandry for genre romance/erotic romance/erotica with one female main characters and three or more male main characters.

Authors: reverse harem is not a thing (harem in Arabic is "the part of the house reserved for women", a reverse of that is a man cave--not exactly suggesting the sexy times you had in mind, hmm?); also, it's racist.

#GenreRomance

I will forever believe that one reason genre romance has never been considered 'legitimate' literature is because it's always been written mostly by women, historically; therefore it gives more & more agency to women (& as queer people & cis men started writing it more openly), it's getting more backlash--trad publishing is in it for the $, on their terms, which never include giving agency to marginalized communities. The rich never part with an ounce of power by choice.

#GenreRomance

From where I sit, this stems from the misogyny at the core of white supremacy: genre romance gives agency to marginalized groups (all women, Black people, queer people, non-Christians) and its readers develop so-called 'unrealistic expectations' of what their lives and relationships could be like if they had that agency in the wider world.

Patriarchy/white supremacy cannot take that. See: who owns/manages most trad publishing.

#GenreRomance #WhiteSupremacy