Posts Tagged ‘ romance fiction ’

R*BY Award Finalists and the availability of the shortlist in Australian Libraries

The Romance Writers of Australia Awards were announced today. These awards are voted on by readers and I was pleased to see so many of my favourite Australian Women Writers listed. As I am saving all my pennies to get my bookshelves built, I thought I’d borrow some of the titles through interlibrary loan so [ READ MORE ]

Eye candy, chest hair and the category romance cover

  • September 7th, 2011
  • Posted in VaVeros

I love my category romance fiction books and, along with my love for the stories, I also love the schmaltzy cover art. For what can be more soothing at the end of a tiring day, than an easy-on-the-eyes image of a handsome man on the cover of your current read. But for many years, I [ READ MORE ]

Ten authors and their tenth book

My bookgroup celebrated its 10th anniversary this week. The topic for this month was 10. So I decided to look at my favourite ten fiction authors and their first and tenth fiction books. Five of the authors were amongst my favourite authors in 2001 and the other 5 are amongst my favourites in 2011. My [ READ MORE ]

Romance fiction, to me, is somewhat akin to science fiction

  • April 25th, 2011
  • Posted in VaVeros

I love reading romances. I love the relationships, I love the internal monologues, I love reading both the male and female points of view of the same events. I love reading about characters grappling with either internal issues or external events beyond their control and overcoming these problems together. I absolutely adore the Happily Ever [ READ MORE ]

Australian romance authors – how many have you read? VaVeros’s list

  • April 2nd, 2011
  • Posted in VaVeros

So I’ve been a lazy blogger and done a straight cut and paste from Bookthingo. Read on! How many Aussie romance authors do you know? Australia is home to a lot of talented authors in the romance genre. Here’s a list of romance authors from the Romance Writers of Australia website. How many authors do you [ READ MORE ]

Australian Romance Readers Convention 2011 – Part 2

  • April 1st, 2011
  • Posted in VaVeros

In my day to day life, I have a few acquaintances who read and enjoy romance novels but it is a rare occasion to be surrounded by romance novel enthusiasts and authors and attending the Australian Romance Readers Convention gives you a chance to talk talk talk about romance novels without the fear that you are [ READ MORE ]

Australian Romance Readers Convention 2011 – Part 1

  • April 1st, 2011
  • Posted in VaVeros

In my day to day life, I have a few acquaintances who read and enjoy romance novels but it is a rare occasion to be surrounded by romance novel enthusiasts and authors and attending the Australian Romance Readers Convention gives you a chance to talk talk talk about romance novels without the fear that you [ READ MORE ]

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