In Culver City you can find America's only romance-only bookstore: the Ripped Bodice Sisters Bea and Leah Koch opened The Ripped Bodice in Culver City with Kickstarter funds; they exclusively sell romance and "romance-adjacent" books.

For Mother's Day, a steamy romance novel starring … Colonel Sanders? The downloadable romance novel "Tender Wings of Desire" from KFC is free. But how does Rob Lowe fit into all of this?

Last exit to romance: The strange alchemy of LGBTQ romance and the books... A gay romance author dishes pop culture, happy endings and the magical power of dark days

Two awesome ladies are opening an all-romance bookstore in LA Across the country there are exploration-worthy bookstores devoted entirely to genres like science fiction, mystery, and comics. And we love those stores! But where are the bookstores devoted to romance? There is not one store that exclusively sells Read more ... romance books – even while romance is the best-sel…

What Do Romance Readers and Pick-Up Artists Both Obsess About? Alphas. It’s a common trope in romance novels for the hero to be an alpha male: confident, bold, a natural leader of other men. They are often firefighters, military men, cops, tycoons, or 19th-century dukes in saucy cravats. And in romance’s taxonomy of Read more ... alpha males, there appears the sub species of the alp…

Talking to Sonali Dev, the Writer Bringing Bollywood to Romance Novels One of this year’s buzziest romance releases has been The Bollywood Bride, by Sonali Dev. Turns out Bollywood movies and romance novels go together like peanut butter and jelly.

The Truth About Romance When You're Making A Baby Romance shows up differently for different couples. Most of all, sometimes looking too hard for romance the way you expect it might make you miss the real things when they show up....

31 Real-Life Photos That Show What Romance Really Looks Like After Kids According to pop culture, romance means candlelit dinners, walks on the beach, and sprints through airports to confess everlasting love. But as mom Julia Koumbassa puts it, romance when you're a parent is "when a trip to the grocery store wi...

31 Real-Life Photos That Show What Romance Really Looks Like After Kids According to pop culture, romance means candlelit dinners, walks on the beach, and sprints through airports to confess everlasting love. But as mom Julia Koumbassa puts it, romance when you're a parent is "when a trip to the grocery store wi...

Outlander and Fifty Shades Prove Hollywood Should Adapt More Romance Here's a question: Out of all the stuff that gets adapted for movies and television every year, why don't more romance novels get picked up?