Tomas Elliott

By Nancy Merritt Bell It's February and we're creeping out of the dead of winter into the adoring arms of Valentine's Day. Time to cuddle up with someone or a good book, and I'm thinking romance. But why think of one book of love literature or two, when there is an entire bookstore to look over. The Ripped Bodice bookstore (or TRB for short) is deeply devoted to romance books — all of them, from the tried and true Dame Barbara Cartland to the new queen of romance, Colleen Hoover, to the...

By Michael McKinley In the beginning, there was a conversation between me, Michael McKinley, and Chuck Wardell about doing something to change the way we get books to readers. Chuck had this brilliant idea on how to do it, and as a writer, I was all in, as I wanted to change the way writers got books to publishers. So we thought: 'Let's round up some writers we know, and offer them a small advance, a large and sliding upwards scale of the royalties, as well as their own webpage for their...