Forced Proximity
Bri Castellini, Alyssa JarrettTrapping new and old romance readers one week at a time
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 239 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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Romance Quests
To define our terms, I’m going to distinguish adventure romances from quest romances slightly. I think quest romances are a version of adventure romance, but not all adventure romances are quests. The distinction, for me, is in the seeking...
Female agency in The Love Hypothesis
I make no secret of my love for The Love Hypothesis, the book. Ali Hazelwood has my fuckin number. I’m asexual, I love romance, I love competent-if-awkward people trying to be good to their community at their own expense until they find som...
Important Dogs in Romance
I know animals in romance (like kids) are controversial to some readers. But it’s hard for me to dislike seeing a pup take up page time. Dogs rule. And these three dogs stand out to me as far as their importance to the plot as well as an in...
Book Club | September 2026
Cathartic violence and hauntings as metaphors, woohoo!
Ahhhhhhh it’s so boring and gauche to talk about being busy but, like, y’all, I’m so busy! It’s good to be busy, and yet, it means that my reading goals are falling by the wayside… plu...
Beauty and the Geek | Guest Curator Alyssa Jarrett
Bri note: It’s a guest curator post! This time, three books I haven’t read yet — which is always exciting since it’s been a slow reading year for me — brought to us by friend-of-the-Stack Alyssa Jarrett, also the author of Love Like No One’...
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Bi/Ace/She/Her. Writer, filmmaker, romance author, human bulldozer. By day I help filmmakers crowdfund their passion projects, by night and on the weekends I write and direct short films and web series, and I write and read romance novels.
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