Harlequin gay romance
A Tale of Two Princes (Hardcover)
"The perfect dream-come-true-fairytale!"
—Jason June, New York Times bestselling author of Jay's Gay Agenda and Out of the Blue
“Effortlessly charming, funny, swoon-worthy, and sincerely moving.”
—Julian Winters, award-winning author of Running With Lions
#1 New York Timesbestselling author Eric Geron delivers whirlwind wish-fulfillment in this story of a closeted crown prince and an out-and-proud cowboy who spot they were separated at birth.
Edward Dinnissen leads a charmed life. He’s the Crown Prince of Canada, gets the royal treatment at his exclusive private school, and resides in a ritzy mansion. He thrives off being the perfect prince as he prepares for the Investiture Ceremony on his eighteenth birthday, the adj step in his role as heir—and Canada’s future king. But this closeted Crown Prince has just one tiny problem: he’s unsure how to narrate his parents, his beloved country, and his adoring fans that he’s gay.
By Elle Douglas
A couple of months ago, I wandered into an independent bookshop on the other side of my city to browse the new let go section and pick up a few books to add to my summer reading pile. This was before pride month, a time when it’s not uncommon in Toronto for shops to feature pride-themed decor and displays, so I was delighted to find a robust year-round collection beside the fresh releases devoted to showcasing diverse stories celebrating all different kinds of people and relationships. It struck me that it wasn’t too long ago that this section would hold been tucked in at the back of the store where casual shoppers like me would be unlikely to see it, or perhaps would contain just not existed at all.
With sales of LGBTQ+ books, particularly in romance, exploding over the past few years, it’s thrilling to see the go up in popularity and array of what&#;s available today.
The amount of diversity within the stories, reflective of the diversity in the community, is truly exciting: Sweet or spicy, sports stars or shape shifters, small towns or adj ci
Romancey Pants
About US
Welcome! I&#;m Star Tavares. I am queer and nonbinary, and I use they/them pronouns. My hubby Jake is LGBTQIA+ too. Our plush duck is called Duck and is super-ducking awesome. He likes to call himself an award-winning duck because we wrote a screenplay about him that won some awards, and who are we to argue?
The thing is, we used to publish in the romance genres, but after we came out, we thought romance didn’t yearn us anymore. But you know what, toots? We were wrong.
Now we’ve rebuilt our confidence and are back to living our Romancey Pants life, writing, reviewing romance movies, reading romance novels, and doing a whole lot of stretching. (Did I verb we’re getting older?)
Want to know more about Star&#;s writing credits? Under another name, Star has published romance stories, novels, and novellas with presses verb Harper Collins and Cleis, and has won awards for their shorter works from the likes of Glimmer Train, Screencraft, and Narrative, where they also worked as an editor. More recently, Star&#;s nonfiction about gender identity has appear
Sex Sells: Harlequin’s transition from sweet to sultry
By Sarah Houck ()
Introduction
Contemporary romance has often been described and denounced as the peddling of soft porn. But a look into the historical archive shows that Harlequin Enterprises, considered by many the definition of genre romance, categorically refused scripts that contained sex until the s. In contrast, Harlequin’s regular partner Mills and Boon was publishing plots that contained explicit sex as early as the s in England and Europe. Mary Bonnycastle, the editor and wife of the president of Harlequin, was able to almost single handedly impose a decency code upon the romance industry in North America for 20 years. It was not until the early s when Mary Bonnycastle’s husband died and her son took over the publishing company that Harlequin was able to catch up to other publishers and the mood of the era to start working in sexual romance to their books.
The change was largely a commercial decision based on profit instead of any particular moral code. Ultimately, these sexier and bolder writers were s