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A collection of 19 posts

four book covers: The Anonymous Letters of C Forestier by Felicia Davin, Cross-Country Love by Erin McLellan, Bodies of Water by Alex Pendragon, Isn't It Obvious? by Rachel Runya Katz

writing process

Pipes and other hollow dreams

my writing process—and also, happily, other people's romance novels

three book covers: Rears & Vices by E. M. Caro, Bailey Bangs Her Brother's Best Friend by Liz Alden, and Dirt-Stained Hands, Thorn-Pierced Skin by Tabitha O'Connell

historical romance

Seamen

pirate civil unions and, of course, romance novels

The façade of the cathedral at Reims, which is built of white stone. There are two towers, a rose window, and three portals with pointed arches.

historical romance

Buildings and books

le livre et l'édifice, but more importantly, romance novels

a collage of narrow slices of all the covers of the books mentioned in the text below

historical romance

200

a few of the previous 200 (!) issues of Word Suitcase, and, as always, romance novels

Daffy Duck as Robin Hood and the covers for three novels by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

contemporary romance

Yoicks

in which I read some Susan Elizabeth Phillips novels

Partial view of vertical slivers of five book covers: Zomromcom, Old Time Religion, Troth, Baker Thief, and The Brides of High Hill

fantasy romance

Crepid

"Creep" and romance novels

Four book covers: Love Is A War Song by Danica Nava, Method Acting by Adele Buck, Sorcery and Small Magics by Maiga Doocy, and The Lord of Stariel by AJ Lancaster

contemporary romance

Hensci

"Hello" in Mvskoke/Muscogee and four recent romance reads

Butterfly ties

Butterflies and romance novels

A costly dish

in which I’m perilously out of my depth re: food words (but perfectly at home re: romance novels)

a sloped cobblestone alley with red brick buildings

Corcas

etymological mysteries and romance novels

graphic of 4 fragments of book covers

Behind closed doors

shacks, cabins, toilets, cahoots, and a real “one of these things is not like the others” set of book reviews

5 fragments of the covers of the books reviewed

writing process

Calques and loanwords

calques, loanwords, and romance novels

I do cock a snook, but not at thee

rude gestures, death, and romance novels

Big-eared rabbit-eared

Big-eared rabbit-eared

a small Australian marsupial, language names, and romance novels

sapphic romance

Weaved and wove

WEAVE, v., and also WEAVE, v., but differently. Yeah, it’s confusing. Do you ever open the dictionary and find out you’ve been wrong about something your whole life? This rocked my world. I mean that positively, though I did have to stare slack-jawed at my screen for a

fantasy romance

Ask nicely

PLEASE, adv., int. I’ve been trying to teach the toddler to say “please” when he shouts “MORE BLUEBERRIES” at me, or his dad, or anyone in the general vicinity who might have access to blueberries. For a while he found it easier to say in American Sign Language, usually

"the obscenest picture the world possesses"

"the obscenest picture the world possesses"

PUDENDUM, n. I recently finished reading Ross King’s The Judgment of Paris, a nonfiction book about Impressionism and French history, in particular the artists Édouard Manet and Henri Meissonier. I loved it, not just because there were several etymologies mentioned, most memorably the one in this long excerpt (page

To have the horn

body or sex words

To have the horn

HORNY, adj. I wanted to know if I could use “horny,” as in “lustful,” in my current novel draft without it being an anachronism, and I am thrilled to report that Green’s Dictionary of Slang has the first recorded instance of “horny” as “sexually eager” in 1826 in US

Shoe against the machine

SABOTAGE, n. I caught myself repeating this word’s famous folk etymology in conversation this week—namely, that “sabotage” as in an act of deliberate obstruction/destruction comes from French sabot (clog, as in a peasant’s shoe), which is true, and that the word “sabotage” comes to us from