From the Editor If you’ve visited our website lately, you know we’re blogging! We’re writers and editors, and frankly the need to write is as addictive as any controlled substance. The beauty of our blog and any other blog is that it’s not controlled. We say what we think, from the profound (at least we like to think so) to the amusing (we’re probably delusional here, too) and welcome you to agree or disagree. Recently we compared today’s Bridezillas to Madame Bovary, trashed the people trashing romance fiction, and presented a short history on romance comics. We also had fun listing all the euphemisms we could think of for making love. Another occasional feature that will appear in our blog is an insider’s look at how we create our stories. We hope to coerce our writers and artists to blog along with us, and let readers in on those spirited discussions. In that vein, let me leave you with some observations from a blog entry entitled Things I have learned working at Arrow Publications: “When working together with old crushes after hurricanes, clothing tends to fall off easily.” And so it goes in the exciting world of graphic romance stories that is MyRomanceStory.com! By the way, drop me an e-mail at arrow_info@arrowpub.com if you know which of our stories this describes and I’ll send you a MyRomanceStory letter opener. Sincerely, T.K. King Managing Editor Holiday Turkeys Contest: Make Your Bad Dates Taste Good We’re all in the romance business. We know that when it’s right, it’s right, and when it’s wrong, it can be freakishly funny. In the spirit of the holiday season, MyRomanceStory.com is asking you to tell us about your most horrible date—your dating turkey. The winner gets a $200 gift certificate from HoneyBaked Hams. We hope this will make it worth all of the pain and horror you’ve suffered at the hands of incompetent companions. Check out MyRomanceStory.com for more details and submit your story starting November 13, 2006. The contest ends December 10, 2006. Good luck from the staff of MyRomanceStory.com! Roberto Goiriz: Lover and Fighter Roberto Goiriz has been illustrating novellas for MyRomanceStory.com since the June 2005 release, “Love Match.” His latest release, “Wanted Man,” demonstrates his talent for breathing vivid and colorful life into our novellas. In a career spanning nearly 30 years, Goiriz, who lives in Paraguay, has illustrated for a wide range of publications, and once published an underground magazine, risking arrest in the name of free expression. The multi-talented artist began his career at 16, doing illustrations for the students’ section in a popular newspaper, as well as publishing his own comic strips. His comic strips would later win him the National Contest of Humor Gráfico... Click here for more...

Latest Releases Collision Course By Michelle Vawn Illustrated by Kike Olmedo Walker Hayes, unrepentant male chauvinist. Tasha Mills, strong-minded, independent woman. When these two literally collide while in-line skating, sparks fly. A furious Tasha hopes she'll never have the displeasure of running into the obnoxious man again. Her hope is in vain. The very next day she discovers that Walter, a powerful CEO, holds the key to the success of her beloved writers' festival—and that he is determined to seduce her. As determined as she is to ignore the way her body heats just being near him… Dangerous Seductions By Janet Hetherington Illustrated by Dave Hillman When chic and pretty Jenna Danes lands her dream job as a magazine columnist in Manhattan's high-fashion world, she quickly discovers she is not immune to its dangerous seductions. Not the least of which is the charismatic and oh-so-sexy photographer Danny Carleton. Their union is swift and fiery, passionate beyond anything Jenna has ever experienced. But she struggles with a nagging sense of unease. She sees alarming incongruities between Danny's work and his high-style life, and his increasing evasiveness only adds to her confusion. Click here for more new titles... MyRomanceStory.com Book Reviews Wondering what's hot and what's not in romance fiction today? Read reviews of books by Linda Howard, Nora Roberts, and Sophie Kinsella to name a few of the authors. MyRomanceStory.com now features reviews of the latest romance releases. We will be carrying reviews of novels, novellas, anthologies, Manga, romance graphic novels, and e-books. Every possible genre from paranormal romance to historicals will be reviewed. Click here for more... Have A Story to Tell? Arrow Publications, LLC, the publisher of MyRomanceStory.com is the premier online site for romance graphic stories, and we welcome submissions by both new and experienced writers. If you have a story languishing in the "to finish" file, dust it off and consider turning it into a script! Submission Guidelines are at the Arrow Publications site. ...But Can You Draw Beautiful People? A quick look at the stories on MyRomanceStory.com and you'll quickly recognize the talents of the many illustrators who work with Arrow Publications, LLC. Join the club! Visit the artists guidelines for more information.

Love in Site By Jonni Bantz Illustrated by Ronn Sutton Carin Raines, comely construction site inspector, is driving Sam crazy with her constant inspections of his work site on the romantic Hawaiian island of Kauai. He’s a professional, for heaven’s sake! He knows what he’s doing. When he demands she cut him some slack, sparks fly. Carin, too, is a professional and she’s just doing her job. But when she runs into Sam at the beach and offers to share her lunch, sparks of a different, hot sexual kind, start to fly.

Master of Fusion By Deborah Davis Illustrated by Italo Ahumada When Daniel Forster, celebrity chef at Shelley’s new restaurant, applies his skills to food, the result is tantalizing and delicious. When he applies his skills to seduction, the results are equally sublime. Shelley, however, has a rule—no dating the staff. Yet both are helpless to resist the pulse between them, and the heat they generate is enough to bake the chocolate-dipped rhubarb tart Daniel is famous for. But someone is trying to sabotage the restaurant, and Daniel is the prime suspect…

Roberto Goiriz: Lover and Fighter
Roberto Goiriz has been illustrating novellas for MyRomanceStory.com since the June 2005 release, “Love Match.” His latest release, “Wanted Man,” demonstrates his talent for breathing vivid and colorful life into our novellas. In a career spanning nearly 30 years, Goiriz, who lives in Paraguay, has illustrated for a wide range of publications, and once published an underground magazine, risking arrest in the name of free expression.

The multi-talented artist began his career at 16, doing illustrations for the students’ section in a popular newspaper, as well as publishing his own comic strips. His comic strips would later win him the National Contest of Humor Gráfico. He continued working in advertising and comics throughout the 1980s and 1990s in Paraguay and Brazil.

In 1984, Goiriz co-founded the underground magazine, “El Raudal.” Produced under what was at the time an oppressive government, the magazine featured art, music, and literature in an effort to resist the dictatorship. According to Goiriz, the government had an open hostility to art and culture and considered it a threat to its power.

“The humble purpose of ‘El Raudal’ was to have a channel for true freedom of speech where we could do things that were impossible to carry out in other media,” Goiriz explains.

Today, Goiriz is director of Imagen & Cia, an advertising and graphic design company that creates communication strategies and develops advertising campaigns for print, radio, and television. Last August, he organized the third edition of “Chaké!,” an exhibition of comics and graphic humor held in Paraguay, attracting artists from around the world. There, Goiriz showcased his new comic Warrior-M.

Showcasing Supernatural Love Comic by Janet Hetherington
To mark the 10th anniversary of Eternal Romance, MyRomanceStory will showcase the supernatural love comic series by Janet Hetherington. Hetherington, the author of this month's Dangerous Seductions, wrote, drew, and self-published Eternal Romance in 1997. The series, which earned critical success and a place in Trina Robbins' book, The Great Women Cartoonists, will be available online and in color for the first time starting in January 2007. Visit MyRomanceStory.com on December 18 for a preview of the holiday story, Angel or Alien.

MyRomanceStory.com Book Reviews
Wondering what's hot and what's not in romance fiction today? MyRomanceStory.com now features reviews of the latest romance releases, including books by Linda Howard, Nora Roberts, and Sophie Kinsella to name a few of the authors. You'll find reviews of novels, novellas, anthologies, Manga, romance graphic novels, and e-books: Every possible genre from paranormal romance to historicals!

Visitors to the site are encouraged to submit reviews of their favorites. All reviews should be between 250-350 words. Include with your review the title, author, publisher, page count and price of the publication.

Each book you review should receive a rating for love scenes of 1-4 Stars and overall satisfaction of 1-4 Hearts. E-mail your review to arrow_info@arrowpub.com and put "Book Review" in the Subject line. Include your name, city, state, and email address. We will not publish your email address. Not all submissions will be published. Submissions become the property of Arrow Publications, LLC.

If you're a publisher or author and want us to review your pre-publication copies and drafts, or for information on how authors and publishers can submit their books for review, email tking@arrowpub.com.