Tag Archives: romance

Another new release for the holidays: Christmas Shopping with a Broken Heart

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Cora

And here is the final new release announcement for 2016. It’s another holiday story, but one that is very different from St. Nicholas of Hell’s Kitchen. For Christmas Shopping with a Broken Heart is a sweet and rather fluffy holiday … Continue reading →

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SFF, Romance and Abuse Narratives

Posted on January 12, 2016 by Cora

Yesterday, I came across this great post by Foz Meadows about the frequency of abusive romance narratives particularly in media aimed at teenagers. The post is a response to a post by someone named The J. Gatsby Kid, in which … Continue reading →

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“Heartache” has a gorgeous new cover and Cora celebrates an anniversary

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Cora

There’ll be a few promotional posts this long holiday weekend, so I’ll just preemptively ask everybody to bear with me, especially since there will be other content as well. First of all, Heartache, my collection of three short stories of … Continue reading →

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The “Is my book a romance?” flowchart

Posted on January 25, 2015 by Cora

Because this question keeps popping up on writers forums and the like, here is a handy flowchart to answer the question “Is my book a romance?”

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A new release for the new year: Christmas Eve at the Purple Owl Café

Posted on January 2, 2015 by Cora

I didn’t stay idle in the time between the years. Instead, I used the time to write and so I have a new release to announce already. Though the release is no longer quite so new. I published the story … Continue reading →

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Of Hard SF and Messy Emotions

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Cora

At the newly launched Uncanny Magazine, Tansy Rayner Roberts asks “Does sex make science fiction ‘soft’?” Found via Pretty Terrible, the site formerly known as The Radish. Now the debate about whether romance subplots water down science fiction is nothing … Continue reading →

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“Not your typical suburban wife and mother”

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Cora

First of all, my post about the latest review debate got linked on Metafilter. Some good discussion over there, too. Then, Riverfront News, a St. Louis based newspaper, published this extensive profile of Nebula and Clarke Award winner Ann Leckie, … Continue reading →

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Mid June Linkdump

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Cora

At Slate, M.R. Carey gets into the neverending literary versus genre fiction debate, belatedly responding to the attacks on genre fiction by Arthur Krystal (see my posts here and here) and Edward Docx (see my post here). At Bookworm Blues, … Continue reading →

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Classic German Cinema Rewatch: Und ewig singen die Wälder (Duel with Death) from 1959

Posted on June 1, 2014 by Cora

It’s time again for my irregular series of reviews of more or less classic German films from the 1950s and 1960s (maybe I should reorganize the posts as a proper series for easier reference). For more vintage German cinema, complete … Continue reading →

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Of She-Hulk, Romance and Soylent Green – The Latest on Gender and Genre

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Cora

While I was away (photos coming soon), the controversies about gender and genre didn’t dry up. I already blogged about the all women Nebula winner slate and how the usual suspects are pissed off about that. If you can stand … Continue reading →

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