Today I wrote a new piece for AAR's blog discussing the idea of romance novels as remedy for what ails you.
Sometimes reading the trials and tribulations of other people really helps me put it in perspective. I may have had to pay $4 or more for a gallon of gas, but I have never been gang raped by the marauding British Army, had my earrings ripped out in the process, gotten pregnant from said raped, and had to fend for myself and my resulting child without the help of my (murdered or displaced) friends and family. Just sayin'.