I recently wrote a post about microtropes, a plot device that affects a romance novel at the scene level, rather than at the chapter or...

Gothic romance is a sub-genre that, up until a few years ago, was often overlooked. But thanks to the uptick in dark romances, and in...

Tropes. The romance genre, and indeed most fiction genres, can't exist without them. And that's because tropes are plot devices that can...