Tuesday Book Chat | Which Christian romance has the best first date scene?

It’s Iola here. Welcome to our Australasian Christian Writers Tuesday Book Chat, where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. Today’s question is: Which Christian romance has the best first date scene? This is a tough question, partly because a lot of the romances I read don’t have a “first …

Tuesday Book Chat | What’s your favourite romance trope?

It’s Iola here. Welcome to our Australasian Christian Writers Tuesday Book Chat, where we encourage book lovers to answer our bookish question of the week. Today’s question is: What’s your favourite romance trope? First, what’s a trope? Reedsy says: Tropes are plot devices, characters, images, or themes that are incorporated so frequently in a genre …

Sheilas and Blokes and the Forgotten Romantic Hero

I posted this article two years ago, but I was only thinking about the concept a couple of days ago while watching television. It struck me that often in commercials, the female character is depicted as calm, capable and usually in control. In contrast, the male character is often depicted as incompetent, stupid or at …