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Jessica Tripler

Jessica Tripler is an academic who lives in Maine. Follow her on Twitter @jessicatripler.

Why I’ll Wait to Read GO SET A WATCHMAN

This post is part of our Harper Lee Reading Day: a celebration of one of the most surprising literary events of ...

Cover Art Comparison: US versus UK Editions

I often wish US covers looked more like UK covers. For example, US historical romance covers often feature a couple ...

Romance Novel Think Pieces For Dummies

While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...

Slouching Towards Zombieland

I was watching Game of Thrones when it hit me that the White Walkers’ army is composed of zombies. Okay, they’re ...

Romance Novel Think Pieces For Dummies

So, you want to write a romance novel think piece. Congratulations! You’ve chosen to do a critique of the most ...

Top Responses to the New Fifty Shades of Grey Book

Grey,  E.L. James’s retelling of her own Fifty Shades of Grey from Christian’s point of view, will be published later this ...

Disney World Planning Guidebooks: A Curated list

It might not seem like you need a guidebook for planning your vacation to Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando. ...

10 Terms the Romance Fandom Taught Me

This week thousands of romance fans, including Book Riot’s own Amanda Diehl, are gathered in Dallas for the RT Booklovers ...

Tropes to Read By and Tropes to Drive By in Romance

When I was in college lit classes, the word “trope” meant a figure of speech. As a grad student in ...

When Your Favorite People Hate Your Favorite Books

I wasn’t always a romance reader. I became one by happy accident. On a family vacation in Florida, I decided ...