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Sign Off the Internet and Start Reading Outside

Sign Off the Internet and Start Reading Outside

by guest blogger Maya Rodale, author of smart and sassy romance novels Stop reading this blog. It’s summer and you should turn off the Internet, pick up a book, and take it outside to a hammock, a park bench, poolside, or anyplace that makes the polar vortex a distance memory. But before you go… Read […]

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7 Things I Learned about Life from Romance Novels

7 Things I Learned about Life from Romance Novels

by guest blogger Maya Rodale, writer of historical tales of true love and adventure In days of yore, there was a tremendous fear that young, impressionable youths would be corrupted by what they read in novels. An 18th-century conduct book warned against reading novels because they “raise expectations of extraordinary adventures and cause readers to admire […]

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Where Is the Love?

Where Is the Love?

by guest blogger Maya Rodale, writer of historical tales of true love and adventure Someone wrote to me recently with a really excellent question: What is the appeal of books like 50 Shades of Grey, and why do so many women want to be treated that way—with violence and domination instead of passion, tenderness, and freedom? […]

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