Few novel ideas remain in romance industry When you find your niche,...

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 6, 2001 ;     504 words ......been my dream to write the great American romance novel. Ever since I read the unforgettable "Sweet Dreams" romance The Popularity Plan, I've known what I...as though the game has changed. Upstart romance writers no longer have to fear only the...

G.K. Chesterton and the Orthodox romance of 'Pride and Prejudice.'

Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature;  March 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......would answer resoundingly with one word: romance. His use of the same word for three apparently...Christian faith. His use of the same word, romance, to describe all three suggests that he...Chesterton's claims about the nature of romance are wonderfully illustrated in what is...

Romance ups original productions. (Romance Classics)

Multichannel News;  December 8, 1997 ;     463 words ......conformance with its long-term game plan, Romance Classics is increasing its original programming...series in primetime. In the first quarter, Romance plans to start airing a different original...of which are already on-air, focus on romance-inspired topics such as weekend getaways...

G.K. Chesterton and the orthodox romance of Pride and Prejudice

Renascence;  April 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......would answer resoundingly with one word: romance. His use of the same word for three apparently...Christian faith. His use of the same word, romance, to describe all three suggests that he...Chesterton's claims about the nature of romance are wonderfully illustrated in what is...

Mauling Governor Pyncheon. (Nathaniel Hawthorne's treatment of romance)

Studies in the Novel;  September 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Hawthorne's conception of the romance has come under renewed attack in recent...1) Such critics see the energy of the romance as directed away from reality, toward...fictional and imaginary. But Hawthorne's romance has an equally important opposite thrust...

The double nature of romance

The Spectator;  February 17, 2007 ;     694 words ...The word 'romance' has come down in the world, and the romantic...which the love-interest predominates. A romance used to be more spirited, a tale of adventure...blood drips down on them. Marvellous. But romance is out of fashion. Most modern thrillers...

DENNIS McCANN; Keep eyes open and you'll find Romance

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Romance -- It is the most reliable arrow in the wandering writer...Valentine's Day intended to help lost and lonely readers find Romance. Take Highway 56 west from Viroqua about 15 miles and watch for the sign that says "Welcome to Romance, Turkey Capital of Wisconsin." You can't miss it. Well...

The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va., Mike Gruss column: You just can't miss...

Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA);  June 13, 2007 ;     516 words ...Byline: Mike Gruss Jun. 13--IF YOU WERE BORED with freshly...U can get ur nuts roasted here Read mike gruss in the pilot -- mon., wed. and sat...revolution won't be coming after all. Mike Gruss, (757) 446-2277, mike.gruss@pilotonline...

Romance between the covers is alive and well

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 14, 1999 ;     700+ words ......it, these are not the best of times for romance. Divorces are being negotiated before...and flowers. Not to mention the state of romance in the highest office of the land. In...Monica Sheehan (Warner Books, $8.99). If romance between the sheets is in deep trouble...

THE WINNEBAGO OF LOVE GREG GODEK TRAVELS THE COUNTRY TEACHING FINE POINTS...

The Virginian Pilot;  February 14, 1996 ;     700+ words ......DEBRA GORDON, STAFF WRITER THE KING OF romance is 40 and slightly rotund. His black hair...frequently. The kind of dedication to romance that has resulted in a room filled with...in his Boston home - all stuffed with romance ideas. Godek was in Norfolk recently at...

The space of romance in Lennox's 'Female Quixote.' (1752 novel by...

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  June 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......effort to dispel as unreal and dangerous the romance tradition that English readers had valued...years. Lennox's heroine, deluded by reading romance, seems to emblematize the irrelevancy of romance to real life ; when Arabella is cured by...

Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural...

Shakespeare Studies;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy...recommend it to those outside medieval or romance studies per se. Working at the forefront...provocatively rethinks what she calls romance's re-beginning in early twelfth-century...

Romance Execs Plan to Relaunch an 'Oasis'.(Romance Classics to relaunch...

Multichannel News;  March 6, 2000 ;     674 words ......more like the fast lane, officials at Romance Classics plan to soon relaunch the network under a new name. Romance had discussed a potential name changed...months, said Kate McEnroe, president of Romance and American Movie Classics, two networks...

The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va., Mike Gruss column: Dude, this summer...

Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA);  June 6, 2007 ;     571 words ...Byline: Mike Gruss Jun. 6--IT WASN'T UNTIL a friend gave me a More cowbell T...I just gave blood, and I've got a new Red Cross T-shirt. Mike Gruss, (757) 446-2277 mike.gruss@pilotonline.com To see more of the The Virginian-Pilot, or...

Between the covers: Romance writers work their magic

Indianapolis Business Journal;  February 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......many people February is the month for romance-intimate dinners, champagne, candlelight...chocolate. But for a group of local writers, romance is a yearround avocation. While chocolate is a priority at Indianapolisbased Indiana Romance Writers Association meetings, the IWRA...