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RITA Award (Romance) is an award that is presented annually by the Romance Writers of America to the best works in romance fiction.
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All About Romance: the back-fence for lovers of romance novels. A review chart allows you to track the reviewer whose opinions are most like yours. There is also a discussion list and a bulletin/message board attached to this list which has been around the Internet since 1997. Their Special Title listings are wonderful -- Tortured Heroes, Two Hankie Reads, Bluestockings and Feminists, etc. The site is searchable by keyword. Check out their Desert Island Keepers.
The Romance Reader site has over 3,000 reviews of current romance fiction. They also have features such as booklists and author interviews. A major site for serious romance readers that has a respectable archive of reviews. Nice links to other romance sites. Their five heart reviews are must reads.
Romantic Times is the online version of the top romance lovers magazine. It gives short reviews and top picks. In addition there is information for aspiring writers. Especially helpful to readers are the theme lists. Searchable by author, title, category, keyword and date. Links to author web pages.
Have you read everything by your favorite author and want to read something similar? Need to know what is the next book in the series? Looking for a guide to lead a book group discussion? Novelist helps answer all these questions and many more.
Get e-mailed a chapter a day to try out new titles. Clubs include: nonfiction, pre-publications, fiction, horror, mystery, business, audio, teen, good news, science fiction, and romance.
Are you writing a paper about an author? Getting ready for a book club meeting? Want to know more about a favorite author? Literature Resource Center explores the works of 130,000 authors.
While you may not find a book in this particular genre, the Kanawha County Public Library's summer library club for adults, the Britton Summer Reading Club, offers nine open-ended categories to chose from and is a great way to find titles you wouldn't normally read.