Decades from now, when all of social media is a single feed implanted directly in our brains, my grandchildren will climb up on my solar-powered rocking chair and say “Tell me about Twitter.” I won’t tell them the bad stuff. I will tell them this: Twitter was a magical place where one minute you’d be joking around with a bunch of writer friends, and the next minute someone would say “HEY, HOW’S ABOUT WE DO AN ANTHOLOGY."

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But that day, for the first time in my life I realized queer girls like me could be the heroes of stories. For the first time in my life I realized queer girls like me could have happy endings instead of only tragic ones. For the first time in my life I realized queer girls like me could exist on the page.

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Queer Romance Month, now in its second year, is a month-long celebration of romance across the LGBTQ+ spectrum, with posts from a variety of readers, writers, bloggers and more, united by our belief that love is love and nobody’s sexuality is a sub-genre.

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We’re super excited to present Escape, a series of comics from artist Kiva Bay about escapism, romance novels, and her experiences reading Nora Roberts’ Public Secrets. Enjoy!

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We’re super excited to present Escape, a series of comics from artist Kiva Bay about escapism, romance novels, and her experiences reading Nora Roberts’ Public Secrets.

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We’re super excited to present Escape, a series of comics from artist Kiva Bay about escapism, romance novels, and her experiences reading Nora Roberts’ Public Secrets.

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We’re super excited to present Escape, a series of comics from artist Kiva Bay about escapism, romance novels, and her experiences reading Nora Roberts’ Public Secrets.

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We're super pleased to present Escape, the first in a series of comics from artist Kiva Bay about escapism, romance novels, and her experiences reading Nora Roberts' Public Secrets.

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Though your average supermarket spinner of paperbacks may remain heteronormative, there's plenty of queer romance being written and published, often by digital-only presses—in fact, the selection can be overwhelming to a newbie like me, used to getting her queer smoochin’ from AO3.

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Forget what you think you know about romance novels. Ever since the bodice rippers exploded on the scene in the 1970’s the romance novel has been known for domineering heroes, simpering heroines and Fabio. But a funny thing has happened in the past four decades: the genre has evolved to reflect the world we live in and tropes have been updated or new ones replaced old the ones (but Fabio’s successors still haven’t put shirts on, thank goodness).

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I’ve always felt a strange fascination with romance novels. There’s no genre that the general public will associate with bad books faster than romance, with their bawdy covers and superficial plotlines. Of course, that’s an enormous generalization. In truth, romance has its good and bad books just like any other genre. Some are brilliant and some will make you feel ill.

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There’s something special about an entertainment guilty pleasure that allows an escape from regular life. Books, movies, TV shows, music, and comics that draw the consumer into a world unlike this one we live in, even if they aren’t the top of their craft in terms of production and intellect. Whether you’re depressed, frustrated with your life, or even just paid to criticize media, a guilty pleasure can offer a chance to turn off your brain and just enjoy something for a while. But does media th

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You can take your Christian Grey and shove him: No Goodbye is the new socially acceptable erotic plane-read.

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Poor Toronto Public Library. You tried to identify with angsty teens, and now people think you're a Ray Bradbury villain. What can I say, Valentine's Day is hard.

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Ida Pollock was her name, though you may have known her by one of her many pseudonyms - Joan M. Allen, Susan Barrie, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, or Marguerite Bell. Whatever name you knew her by, she was the oldest romance novelist and she passed away last week at the impressive age of 105. And boy, did she lead an interesting life.

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I'd like to say thank you to Christie Sims, author of the "Dinosaur Beast Erotica" series. And I'm not being sarcastic. If werewolf erotica is a thing then it's just not fair for dinosaurs not to get their due. (Yes, I know Gryphons aren't dinosaurs. But this is a post about dinosaur erotica. Just let it go.) (via: Geekologie) Are you following The Mary Sue on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, & Google +?

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Artist Steve Thomas created a vintage toy style C-3PO illustration. Prints are available! (via Laughing Squid)

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