Lucynka
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Of the blog “Lucynka Reviews Obscure Bullshit.” Girls don’t want boys, girls want feminist analyses of Cornell Woolrich stories. Currently also reviewing stories from the romance pulps.
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· Oct 25
The Best of All-Story Love: 1929
Amazon.com: The Best of All-Story Love: 1929 eBook : Staron, Lucynka: Kindle Store
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It's here!!! THE BEST OF ALL-STORY LOVE: 1929, a first-of-its-kind anthology of #pulp #romance stories from that magazine's first year. It took long enough, but I'm ever so happy I can bring at least a fraction of this forgotten part of romance history to light. 💕 #romancelandia #booksky📚💙
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Last chance to get the ebook for Beulah Poynter's IT LOOKED LIKE MURDER on sale! Back to full price tomorrow!
Poynter was an actress who later became big in the #pulp fiction genres of #mystery & #romance. This collects 5 loosely-connected proto-procedurals w/ romantic subplots for the first time!
Poynter was an actress who later became big in the #pulp fiction genres of #mystery & #romance. This collects 5 loosely-connected proto-procedurals w/ romantic subplots for the first time!
It Looked Like Murder: The Steele and Donovan Mysteries
It Looked Like Murder: The Steele and Donovan Mysteries - Kindle edition by Poynter, Beulah, Staron, Lucynka, Staron, Lucynka. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading It Looked Like Murder: The Steele and Donovan Mysteries.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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I'm honored to have been featured by @smartbitches.bsky.social as a guest reviewer today! Remember that terrible, offensive (and offensively BORING) 1974 Glenna Finley Gothic abt plantation houses and voodoo? I didn't want to, either! Alas, "misery shared" and all that. 😂 #romance #romancelandia
Love’s Magic Spell by Glenna Finley | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
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December 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm honored to have been featured by @smartbitches.bsky.social as a guest reviewer today! Remember that terrible, offensive (and offensively BORING) 1974 Glenna Finley Gothic abt plantation houses and voodoo? I didn't want to, either! Alas, "misery shared" and all that. 😂 #romance #romancelandia
"I just feel like Darien is the kind of guy who would have peaked in high school if he hadn't spent so much time selling pot under the bleachers."
Review: City of Gods and Monsters by Kayla Edwards
This is Popular On BookTok, and Ingrid feels very very lied to, because the only thing bigger than the plot holes are the red flags.
This is Popular On BookTok, and Ingrid feels very very lied to, because the only thing bigger than the plot holes are the red flags.
Review: City of Gods and Monsters by Kayla Edwards (2022)
House of Devils, #1 Heat Factor: I can’t really talk about heat factor in a book where the heroine feels like a child Character Chemistry: Helpless meets savior complex, maybe? Plot: Loren is a helpless, human child-woman who is first hunted and then rescued by Darien, who is just like, so naughty and strong, and together they try to stumble their way through a plot just rife with holes…
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December 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"I just feel like Darien is the kind of guy who would have peaked in high school if he hadn't spent so much time selling pot under the bleachers."
Last chance to get the ebook for Beulah Poynter's IT LOOKED LIKE MURDER on sale! Back to full price tomorrow!
Poynter was an actress who later became big in the #pulp fiction genres of #mystery & #romance. This collects 5 loosely-connected proto-procedurals w/ romantic subplots for the first time!
Poynter was an actress who later became big in the #pulp fiction genres of #mystery & #romance. This collects 5 loosely-connected proto-procedurals w/ romantic subplots for the first time!
It Looked Like Murder: The Steele and Donovan Mysteries
It Looked Like Murder: The Steele and Donovan Mysteries - Kindle edition by Poynter, Beulah, Staron, Lucynka, Staron, Lucynka. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading It Looked Like Murder: The Steele and Donovan Mysteries.
www.amazon.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I'm honored to have been featured by @smartbitches.bsky.social as a guest reviewer today! Remember that terrible, offensive (and offensively BORING) 1974 Glenna Finley Gothic abt plantation houses and voodoo? I didn't want to, either! Alas, "misery shared" and all that. 😂 #romance #romancelandia
Love’s Magic Spell by Glenna Finley | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
smartbitchestrashybooks.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm honored to have been featured by @smartbitches.bsky.social as a guest reviewer today! Remember that terrible, offensive (and offensively BORING) 1974 Glenna Finley Gothic abt plantation houses and voodoo? I didn't want to, either! Alas, "misery shared" and all that. 😂 #romance #romancelandia
Still too tired to write just yet (though getting better!), so here's a picture of Ellen Hogue (AKA: Eleanor Kerkhoff, née Stinchcomb), taken sometime in the 1930s. According to her granddaughter, who shared the photo online, it was taken by a friend who was testing lighting.
December 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Still too tired to write just yet (though getting better!), so here's a picture of Ellen Hogue (AKA: Eleanor Kerkhoff, née Stinchcomb), taken sometime in the 1930s. According to her granddaughter, who shared the photo online, it was taken by a friend who was testing lighting.
I hate how fucking exhausted I am after the holidays. Like, I'm trying to write a little, and my ability to concentrate and form words is just GONE. (Which I rather expected, because it's always this way, but still, it's disappointing.)
Idk, maybe I should just content myself with reading today.
Idk, maybe I should just content myself with reading today.
November 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I hate how fucking exhausted I am after the holidays. Like, I'm trying to write a little, and my ability to concentrate and form words is just GONE. (Which I rather expected, because it's always this way, but still, it's disappointing.)
Idk, maybe I should just content myself with reading today.
Idk, maybe I should just content myself with reading today.
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No Thanksgiving covers to share, so instead I'll just bring this one back. #romancelandia
LOVE BOOK was edited by Jane Littell, a popular #pulp #romance author & (coincidentally) a queer woman. One of her early stories can be found in my recent ALL-STORY LOVE anthology!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXBH8LR1
LOVE BOOK was edited by Jane Littell, a popular #pulp #romance author & (coincidentally) a queer woman. One of her early stories can be found in my recent ALL-STORY LOVE anthology!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXBH8LR1
November 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
No Thanksgiving covers to share, so instead I'll just bring this one back. #romancelandia
LOVE BOOK was edited by Jane Littell, a popular #pulp #romance author & (coincidentally) a queer woman. One of her early stories can be found in my recent ALL-STORY LOVE anthology!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXBH8LR1
LOVE BOOK was edited by Jane Littell, a popular #pulp #romance author & (coincidentally) a queer woman. One of her early stories can be found in my recent ALL-STORY LOVE anthology!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXBH8LR1
No Thanksgiving covers to share, so instead I'll just bring this one back. #romancelandia
LOVE BOOK was edited by Jane Littell, a popular #pulp #romance author & (coincidentally) a queer woman. One of her early stories can be found in my recent ALL-STORY LOVE anthology!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXBH8LR1
LOVE BOOK was edited by Jane Littell, a popular #pulp #romance author & (coincidentally) a queer woman. One of her early stories can be found in my recent ALL-STORY LOVE anthology!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXBH8LR1
November 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
No Thanksgiving covers to share, so instead I'll just bring this one back. #romancelandia
LOVE BOOK was edited by Jane Littell, a popular #pulp #romance author & (coincidentally) a queer woman. One of her early stories can be found in my recent ALL-STORY LOVE anthology!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXBH8LR1
LOVE BOOK was edited by Jane Littell, a popular #pulp #romance author & (coincidentally) a queer woman. One of her early stories can be found in my recent ALL-STORY LOVE anthology!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FXBH8LR1
Me: I love kidnap romances!
Also me: No, not like that. (Nor that. Not that, either. Nope. No—)
Also me: No, not like that. (Nor that. Not that, either. Nope. No—)
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Me: I love kidnap romances!
Also me: No, not like that. (Nor that. Not that, either. Nope. No—)
Also me: No, not like that. (Nor that. Not that, either. Nope. No—)
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Sharing another old fave: Frances Lake (McKenna)'s "Tonight You're Mine!" (ALL-STORY LOVE, Feb. 1, 1940). Kind of like PERSUASION, if Anne had agreed to prostitute herself to Wentworth for a weekend. 👀 #pulp #romance #romancelandia
In hindsight, perhaps no other story demonstrates the…
In hindsight, perhaps no other story demonstrates the…
“Tonight You’re Mine!”: Kind of like Persuasion, if Wentworth had blackmailed Anne into spending a sexy weekend alone with him.
Her dark eyes narrowed speculatively as a cream-colored coupe swung into her driveway, stopped directly beneath her. A man got out, and before her eyes recognized him, her lurching heart told her …
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November 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Sharing another old fave: Frances Lake (McKenna)'s "Tonight You're Mine!" (ALL-STORY LOVE, Feb. 1, 1940). Kind of like PERSUASION, if Anne had agreed to prostitute herself to Wentworth for a weekend. 👀 #pulp #romance #romancelandia
In hindsight, perhaps no other story demonstrates the…
In hindsight, perhaps no other story demonstrates the…
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This is a 1000% cursed idea that I came up with late last night, and yet—I will stand by it. #romance #romancelandia
THE SHEIK, except Diana Mayo has an insufferable cartoon inner goddess, a la Anastasia Steele.
(Has someone written this fanfic? If not, WILL someone write this fanfic?)
(Has someone written this fanfic? If not, WILL someone write this fanfic?)
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is a 1000% cursed idea that I came up with late last night, and yet—I will stand by it. #romance #romancelandia
Sharing another old fave: Frances Lake (McKenna)'s "Tonight You're Mine!" (ALL-STORY LOVE, Feb. 1, 1940). Kind of like PERSUASION, if Anne had agreed to prostitute herself to Wentworth for a weekend. 👀 #pulp #romance #romancelandia
In hindsight, perhaps no other story demonstrates the…
In hindsight, perhaps no other story demonstrates the…
“Tonight You’re Mine!”: Kind of like Persuasion, if Wentworth had blackmailed Anne into spending a sexy weekend alone with him.
Her dark eyes narrowed speculatively as a cream-colored coupe swung into her driveway, stopped directly beneath her. A man got out, and before her eyes recognized him, her lurching heart told her …
lucynka.wordpress.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Sharing another old fave: Frances Lake (McKenna)'s "Tonight You're Mine!" (ALL-STORY LOVE, Feb. 1, 1940). Kind of like PERSUASION, if Anne had agreed to prostitute herself to Wentworth for a weekend. 👀 #pulp #romance #romancelandia
In hindsight, perhaps no other story demonstrates the…
In hindsight, perhaps no other story demonstrates the…
This is a 1000% cursed idea that I came up with late last night, and yet—I will stand by it. #romance #romancelandia
THE SHEIK, except Diana Mayo has an insufferable cartoon inner goddess, a la Anastasia Steele.
(Has someone written this fanfic? If not, WILL someone write this fanfic?)
(Has someone written this fanfic? If not, WILL someone write this fanfic?)
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is a 1000% cursed idea that I came up with late last night, and yet—I will stand by it. #romance #romancelandia
THE SHEIK, except Diana Mayo has an insufferable cartoon inner goddess, a la Anastasia Steele.
(Has someone written this fanfic? If not, WILL someone write this fanfic?)
(Has someone written this fanfic? If not, WILL someone write this fanfic?)
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
THE SHEIK, except Diana Mayo has an insufferable cartoon inner goddess, a la Anastasia Steele.
(Has someone written this fanfic? If not, WILL someone write this fanfic?)
(Has someone written this fanfic? If not, WILL someone write this fanfic?)
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It's a holiday week and I'm already too busy and burnt out to write anything, so have this old fave instead! Beulah Poynter's "The Door Between" (SWEETHEART STORIES, May 1942), featuring a wheelchair-bound hero and…actually pretty good disability rep for the era??? #pulp #romance #romancelandia
“The Door Between”: Come for (what you think is going to be) the fake relationship trope, stay for the disability rep.
“It shouldn’t be hard to be a good wife,” Anne said, smiling, “if you love your husband.” “Oh, I love him all right or I wouldn’t have smashed my career for him. I threw over five hundred a week f…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It's a holiday week and I'm already too busy and burnt out to write anything, so have this old fave instead! Beulah Poynter's "The Door Between" (SWEETHEART STORIES, May 1942), featuring a wheelchair-bound hero and…actually pretty good disability rep for the era??? #pulp #romance #romancelandia
It's a holiday week and I'm already too busy and burnt out to write anything, so have this old fave instead! Beulah Poynter's "The Door Between" (SWEETHEART STORIES, May 1942), featuring a wheelchair-bound hero and…actually pretty good disability rep for the era??? #pulp #romance #romancelandia
“The Door Between”: Come for (what you think is going to be) the fake relationship trope, stay for the disability rep.
“It shouldn’t be hard to be a good wife,” Anne said, smiling, “if you love your husband.” “Oh, I love him all right or I wouldn’t have smashed my career for him. I threw over five hundred a week f…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It's a holiday week and I'm already too busy and burnt out to write anything, so have this old fave instead! Beulah Poynter's "The Door Between" (SWEETHEART STORIES, May 1942), featuring a wheelchair-bound hero and…actually pretty good disability rep for the era??? #pulp #romance #romancelandia
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Casual reminder that the ebook for IT LOOKED LIKE MURDER, a collection of 5 loosely-connected Beulah Poynter proto-procedurals (originally from 1919-1922), is still on sale! Do you want some vintage mysteries with romantic subplots & a progressive/feministic bent? Look no further! #pulp #mystery
It Looked Like Murder: The Steele and Donovan Mysteries
It Looked Like Murder: The Steele and Donovan Mysteries [Poynter, Beulah, Staron, Lucynka, Staron, Lucynka] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. It Looked Like Murder: The Steele and Donovan Mysteries
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November 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Casual reminder that the ebook for IT LOOKED LIKE MURDER, a collection of 5 loosely-connected Beulah Poynter proto-procedurals (originally from 1919-1922), is still on sale! Do you want some vintage mysteries with romantic subplots & a progressive/feministic bent? Look no further! #pulp #mystery
It Looked Like Murder: The Steele and Donovan Mysteries
It Looked Like Murder: The Steele and Donovan Mysteries [Poynter, Beulah, Staron, Lucynka, Staron, Lucynka] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. It Looked Like Murder: The Steele and Donovan Mysteries
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November 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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In case you missed it: My post on LOVE MIRROR, my new fave #romance magazine. Featuring female characters who dare to have premarital sex and yet still get an HEA. 😱 (Also, upper-class heroes/heroines GTFO.) ❤️ #pulp #romancelandia #toogoodforthisworld
Some may remember me posting about the obscure, short-lived (Nov. 1931 - Apr. 1933) LOVE MIRROR a couple months ago—welp, I've now written a whole post about it!
In short, it's the feminist, leftist, Depression-era romance magazine you never knew you wanted. #pulp #romance #romancelandia
In short, it's the feminist, leftist, Depression-era romance magazine you never knew you wanted. #pulp #romance #romancelandia
Love Mirror: The feminist, leftist, Depression-era romance magazine you never knew you wanted.
Mixing it up with a post less about a specific story and more about a magazine at large (you may notice that my little-used “Author Spotlight” category has now turned into “Author/Magazine Spotligh…
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November 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
In case you missed it: My post on LOVE MIRROR, my new fave #romance magazine. Featuring female characters who dare to have premarital sex and yet still get an HEA. 😱 (Also, upper-class heroes/heroines GTFO.) ❤️ #pulp #romancelandia #toogoodforthisworld
Reading Goodreads reviews of THE SHEIK (partly for research but also partly for entertainment), and shout-out to this particular bit of this particular 1-star review. Such pure, unmitigated rage; I respect it so much. 🫡 #romance #romancelandia #ScreamAndDieAndDie #NotLikeOtherArabs
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Reading Goodreads reviews of THE SHEIK (partly for research but also partly for entertainment), and shout-out to this particular bit of this particular 1-star review. Such pure, unmitigated rage; I respect it so much. 🫡 #romance #romancelandia #ScreamAndDieAndDie #NotLikeOtherArabs
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Exhausted Stable Boy Clearly Just Going Through Motions Of Tearing Open Bodice https://theonion.com/exhausted-stable-boy-clearly-just-going-through-motions-of-tearing-open-bodice/
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Exhausted Stable Boy Clearly Just Going Through Motions Of Tearing Open Bodice https://theonion.com/exhausted-stable-boy-clearly-just-going-through-motions-of-tearing-open-bodice/
Oof, already at almost 3K words for this review. Definitely won't be able to finish it before my busy weekend, and I hope that—combined with all the holiday stuff NEXT weekend—my brain won't get totally fried and I'll be able to pick up wherever I end up leaving off.
November 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Oof, already at almost 3K words for this review. Definitely won't be able to finish it before my busy weekend, and I hope that—combined with all the holiday stuff NEXT weekend—my brain won't get totally fried and I'll be able to pick up wherever I end up leaving off.
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Tired: Kidnapping a woman because you have no sexual self-control and a fuck-ton of Daddy Issues.
Wired: Kidnapping a woman because you can make her wealthy relatives pay through the nose (possibly in an attempt to offset their colonialist, capitalist exploitation of your local working class???).
Wired: Kidnapping a woman because you can make her wealthy relatives pay through the nose (possibly in an attempt to offset their colonialist, capitalist exploitation of your local working class???).
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Tired: Kidnapping a woman because you have no sexual self-control and a fuck-ton of Daddy Issues.
Wired: Kidnapping a woman because you can make her wealthy relatives pay through the nose (possibly in an attempt to offset their colonialist, capitalist exploitation of your local working class???).
Wired: Kidnapping a woman because you can make her wealthy relatives pay through the nose (possibly in an attempt to offset their colonialist, capitalist exploitation of your local working class???).