Vivanco, Laura (2020) Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction Online: Topic religion/spirituality love death authors readers romance and, or as, activism Lindsay Evans health/medical psychology Piper Huguley race/ethnicity Publishing romance scholarship Rose Lerner Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) sex/sexuality LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Alyssa Cole wealth/prosperity emotions metaphor/symbolism Carola Dunn Georgette Heyer Lisa Kleypas Meljean Brook Elizabeth Hoyt Justine Davis/Justine Dare Suleikha Snyder Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse community happy ending
McDavis-Conway, Shana (2022) Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction Fat Studies ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST Topic fat, fatness paratext race/ethnicity LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Talia Hibbert Rebekah Weatherspoon Rose Lerner Xan West
