Courtney Milan, whose “This Wicked Gift” was the highlight of the recent holiday anthology The Heart of Christmas, delivers the full package with her debut novel Proof By Seduction. Milan’s writing is crisp, original and full of surprises, and her protagonists are anything but your run-of-the-mill historical romance hero and heroine. The emotionally stunted, science-minded… Read More Proof By Seduction, by Courtney Milan
…sort of! LOL. I teamed back up with my pals, the awesome Roger Newcomb and Damon Jacobs of We Love Soaps, for their year-end Best and Worst round-up episode of We Love Soaps TV. We discuss our favorite and not-so favorite things about the year in daytime. There is much joy over OLTL’s Kish, some… Read More I’m not an expert, but I play one on TV…
As readers and viewers we all bring our own experience, our own interpretation, to any given text. When I watch something and subsequently talk about it, I think it’s fairly clear that I have a major gender/race/sexuality filter. It is almost impossible for me to divorce myself from analyzing those elements in a book or… Read More You bring the chips, I’ll bring the subtext.
Soaps make me laugh, they make me cry. Seldom does one make me so angry I’m actually shaking. Yep, I’m talking GENERAL HOSPITAL, which used the 1998 story of Elizabeth’s rape to garner sympathy for the character while she’s sleeping with her fiancé’s brother. Look, there is no doubt that Rebecca Herbst and Jonathan Jackson sold… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
Watching Roger Newcomb, Damon Jacobs and Elizabeth Kerri Mahon discuss one of my favorite topics — soaps’ lack of strong women — on We Love Soaps’ sixth episode of WLS TV got me thinking again. I sifted through each daytime soap that I watch, trying to think of a woman who is not reduced to obsessing… Read More Women on TV: the difference between night and day
I know I get snarky sometimes, but we all know I love soaps, right? I adore this genre with every fiber of my being and will defend it to the death against its detractors — of which, sadly, there are many. Whenever the daytime industry encounters misfortune, people are always ready to swoop in like… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
There are a lot of logic flaws in GH’s “Franco Hearts Jason” story, but here’s one in particular: If everyone knows Jason is a killer, he’s not the best hitman, he’s theworst. Now, I’m hardly an expert when it comes to contract hits and the mob (okay, I’m lying; clearly whacking people is how I make extra… Read More Soap Opera Weekly: Blogging With Mala
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