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Romance Awareness, August

The library has lots of romance titles to help celebrate Romance Awareness Month.  If you are looking for books, try searching under romantic suspense or love stories, American in the online catalog.  The library also has an extensive collection of romantic comedy films, available on DVD and videotape, free to check out with a library card. 

Looking for a great online source for romance book news, reviews and forums?  Try AllAboutRomance.Com.  For even more suggestions, refer to the library’s Romantic Suspense Booklist, subscribe to the Romance BookLetters email or visit Novelist, a library database that features fiction titles, reviews, and readalikes for genre fiction, including romance.

Books Available from the Library:

For Romance Writers

The Art of Romance Writing:  Practical Advice from an International Bestselling Romance Writer by Valerie Parv.  808.385 P259a2

Dangerous Men & Adventurous Women:  Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance edited by Jayne Ann Krentz.  813.08509 D213d

The End of the Novel of Love by Vivian Gornick.  813.08509352042 G681e

G M C:  Goal, Motivation, and Conflict - The Building Blocks of Good Fiction by Debra Dixon.  808.3 D643g

On Writing Romance:  How to Craft a Novel that Sells by Leigh Michaels.  808.385 M582o

Reading the Romance:  Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature by Janice A. Radway.  028.9082 R227r 1991

The Romance Readers' Advisory:  The Librarian's Guide to Love in the Stacks by Ann Bouricius.  813. 085016 B667r

The Romance Writer's Handbook by Rebecca Vinyard.  808.385 V798r

See Jane Write:  A Girl's Guide to Writing Chick Lit by Sarah Mlynowski and Farrin Jacobs.  808.385 M699s

Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers preface by Kay Mussell, edited by James Vinson.  823.08509 T918t

Will Write for Shoes:  How to Write a Chick Lit Novel by Cathy Yardley.  808.3085 Y21w

Writing Romances:  A Handbook By the Romance Writers of America edited by Rita Gallagher and Rita Clay Estrada.  808.385 W939w

You Can Write a Romance by Rita Clay Estrada and Rita Gallagher.  808.385 Es88y

Top 50 Romance Authors from The Romance Reader

1. Nora Roberts/ J.D. Robb
2. Linda Howard
3. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
4. Julie Garwood
5. Georgette Heyer
6. Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick
7. Judith McNaught
8. LaVryle Spencer
9. Jude Devereaux
10. Mary Jo Putney
11. Diana Gabaldon
      Kathleen Woodiwiss
13. Laura Kinsale
14. Mary Balogh
15. Sandra Brown
16. Loretta Chase
17. Jo Beverley
      Roberta Gellis
19. Elizabeth Lowell/Ann Maxwell
20. Johanna Lindsey
21. Pamela Morsi
22. Karen Robards
23. Jennifer Crusie
24. Sharon & Tom Curtis
      Anne Stuart
25. Patricia Gaffney
      Joan Wolf
28. Dara Joy
29. Catherine Coulter
30. Madeline Baker/Amanda Ashley
      Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George
      Deborah Smith
33. Jill Barnett
34. Connie Brockway
      Justine Dare/Davis
36. Kristen Hannah
      Beverly Jenkins
      Carla Kelly
      Sharon Sala/Dinah McCall
      Penelope Williamson
41. Kathleen Korbel/Eileen Dreyer
      Francis Ray
43. Judith Ivory
44. Jane Austen
      Brenda Jackson
      Lisa Kleypas
      Stephanie Laurens
48. Teresa Meideros
      Fern Michaels
50. Catherine Anderson
      Marsha Canhan
      Kathleen Eagle
      Tami Hoag
      Brenda Joyce

Resources on the Web:

AllAboutRomance.Com - ten plus years online and the number one site on the Web for those who read and love romance novels.

Romance Reader Top 100 - top 100 romances as voted on by The Romance Reader.

Romantic Suspense Booklist - titles that will make your heart race!  Books listed are available from the South Central Library System.

Subscribe to the Romance BookLetters - when you subscribe to this email booklist, you will receive reviews of the best new romance novels, from historical and contemporary love stories to romantic suspense and inspirational titles.

Visit Novelist, a library database that features fiction titles, reviews, and readalikes for genre fiction, including romance.