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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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 …
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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…
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???).
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Anyway, "Ellen Hogue" was the pseudonym of Eleanor Kerkhoff (née Stinchcomb). SERENADE is dedicated to her grandmother, whose name was…wait for it…(Mary) Ellen Hogue (née Singleton).
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Anyway, "Ellen Hogue" was the pseudonym of Eleanor Kerkhoff (née Stinchcomb). SERENADE is dedicated to her grandmother, whose name was…wait for it…(Mary) Ellen Hogue (née Singleton).
I love physical books, but a big downside to them is that one can't easily do a search for a specific word. 🫠
November 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I love physical books, but a big downside to them is that one can't easily do a search for a specific word. 🫠
I don't read enough modern romance (let alone romantasy) to really comment on this, but it's nevertheless a very interesting observation. 🤔
Today, Ingrid's talking about shorter attention spans and even shorter sentences.
Writing Style and Attention Span
Something is happening to our books. It’s not anything obvious; this isn’t a trend starring the sudden and overwhelming appearance of blue aliens or shadow daddies. No, it’s something subtle. Something sneaky. Something that creates an undercurrent or a feeling. It took me a long time to put my finger on it, but during my Romantasy Binge Fest of 2025, I finally figured it out.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I don't read enough modern romance (let alone romantasy) to really comment on this, but it's nevertheless a very interesting observation. 🤔
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Bringing this back, bc it's worthwhile & probably the closest thing to genuine #romance scholarship from the #pulp era: Hortense McRaven's "The Love-Pulp Heroine Steps Out," from THE AUTHOR & JOURNALIST, Aug. 1935. (McRaven, coincidentally, studied literature for 3 years in college.) #romancelandia
Vintage Article: “The Love-Pulp Heroine Steps Out”
It’s time for another vintage article, this time by fave pulp author Hortense McRaven, originally published in the August 1935 issue of The Author & Journalist. (I do actually have a real revi…
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November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bringing this back, bc it's worthwhile & probably the closest thing to genuine #romance scholarship from the #pulp era: Hortense McRaven's "The Love-Pulp Heroine Steps Out," from THE AUTHOR & JOURNALIST, Aug. 1935. (McRaven, coincidentally, studied literature for 3 years in college.) #romancelandia
Bringing this back, bc it's worthwhile & probably the closest thing to genuine #romance scholarship from the #pulp era: Hortense McRaven's "The Love-Pulp Heroine Steps Out," from THE AUTHOR & JOURNALIST, Aug. 1935. (McRaven, coincidentally, studied literature for 3 years in college.) #romancelandia
Vintage Article: “The Love-Pulp Heroine Steps Out”
It’s time for another vintage article, this time by fave pulp author Hortense McRaven, originally published in the August 1935 issue of The Author & Journalist. (I do actually have a real revi…
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November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bringing this back, bc it's worthwhile & probably the closest thing to genuine #romance scholarship from the #pulp era: Hortense McRaven's "The Love-Pulp Heroine Steps Out," from THE AUTHOR & JOURNALIST, Aug. 1935. (McRaven, coincidentally, studied literature for 3 years in college.) #romancelandia
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Finished my reading (and live-blogging) of Ellen Hogue's SERENADE (1931). It had some flaws (many of them owing to the publishing culture of the time), but overall I really enjoyed it! If I were to give it a rating it would be a solid 4/5, which is pretty high for me. #pulp #romance #romancelandia
Official live-blog thread for Ellen Hogue's Western kidnap romance SERENADE, from 1931. Check out the attached thread (it's a small one) for the full premise and some background. #pulp #romance #romancelandia
And away we go!
And away we go!
November 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Finished my reading (and live-blogging) of Ellen Hogue's SERENADE (1931). It had some flaws (many of them owing to the publishing culture of the time), but overall I really enjoyed it! If I were to give it a rating it would be a solid 4/5, which is pretty high for me. #pulp #romance #romancelandia
Finished my reading (and live-blogging) of Ellen Hogue's SERENADE (1931). It had some flaws (many of them owing to the publishing culture of the time), but overall I really enjoyed it! If I were to give it a rating it would be a solid 4/5, which is pretty high for me. #pulp #romance #romancelandia
Official live-blog thread for Ellen Hogue's Western kidnap romance SERENADE, from 1931. Check out the attached thread (it's a small one) for the full premise and some background. #pulp #romance #romancelandia
And away we go!
And away we go!
November 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Finished my reading (and live-blogging) of Ellen Hogue's SERENADE (1931). It had some flaws (many of them owing to the publishing culture of the time), but overall I really enjoyed it! If I were to give it a rating it would be a solid 4/5, which is pretty high for me. #pulp #romance #romancelandia
Still making my way through this, but just gonna say that I'm of the (potentially controversial?) opinion that if you feel you have to mention the size of the hero's dick (inevitably always huge, never even average), you're actually not that good at writing sex.
It's open access (i.e. free) and focuses on the lack of reality/real-world implications of "prioritizing of penetration" in romance sex scenes, assumptions around arousal and 'wetness', and genital size (in the case of MMC)/tightness (of FMCs).
Between the sheets: physiological sex acts in the contemporary romance novel
Sexual pleasure is a fundamental concern of the romance genre, and while romance novels do prioritize ‘women wanting and getting great sex from partners who know how to deliver’, it is important to...
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November 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Still making my way through this, but just gonna say that I'm of the (potentially controversial?) opinion that if you feel you have to mention the size of the hero's dick (inevitably always huge, never even average), you're actually not that good at writing sex.
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…
lucynka.wordpress.com
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
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…
lucynka.wordpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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