Dear romance novelists,

Stop using "fisting" and "fisted" as synonyms for "making/made a fist." I know you're only using it because other romance novelists use it, which makes it trite. Romance novelists are the only people who use "to fist" as a verb with this definition. The rest of the English-speaking world is aware of the entirely different ( Read more... )

"Laving"

I am really, really tired of reading about heroes laving heroines with their tongues, but not on any specific body part ( Read more... )

First, I want to thank everyone who contributed to, or helped spread the word about, the Help Julia fund. You are the best sort of people who know the best sort of people, and I am proud to count you among my friends ( Read more... )

Raventhorpe. In fact, all names involving Raven, Rook, or Crow in any form. Also, no more aquiline noses.

No women's names invoking swans, wrens, or sparrows; nor descriptions of women as same.

In fact, I'm going to forbid bird references all together.

(swimtech is on the phone with me speculating about a character named Sandpiper who runs around and ( Read more... )

Dear Romance Novelists,

I hereby forbid any of you from ever again naming a male protagonist "Cain."

In fact, you're not allowed to name any male characters that, lest we risk them turning up as the protagonist of their own book later ( Read more... )

Reference to the penis as a "muscle ( Read more... )

I have a list of romance novel cliches I never want to hear again. Until five minutes ago, it consisted of ( Read more... )