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KISSES! We all love having them, love watching them (as long as the actors or the Foleys aren’t slurping) love reading about them.

Come and celebrate KISSES with me this week on my column at Jessewave’s blog. Share your favourite kisses, share your kisses excerpts.

http://reviewsbyjessewave.blogspot.com/2009/06/you-need-kissing-badly-and-by-someone.html

Although I knew this last week, Ravenous Romance announced two days ago that they’ve sold two books to Alyson Books who are going to publish gay romance.

It’s about time, really. I’ve always known that gay men would like reading romance, and why not? I’m not comparing gay men to women, but everyone wants a bit of romance in their life, and it’s only stigma and “men don’t do [this] or [that] which means that men are the sex less likely to buy books.

I don’t know if Don Weise quite knows what he’s letting himself in for, because if he opens his doors to romance, he’ll suddenly realise just how much there is out there. It shocks me a little to hear that he hasn’t been reading it up to now, I’d be keeping my eye on what was going out in gay fiction land in his position!

But still – it’s good news – great news for the gay romance genre. I can’t help but feel a BIT smug because I did predict this, that others would fall once the Running Press line started up!

Hurrah!