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3 Romantic Bible Stories

By J. Timothy King on November 2, 2016

Around Valentine’s Day, Facebook thought I might enjoy this HuffPost article, entitled “Romance in the Bible?”. (Question mark in original.) I once knew its author, back when I myself also worshipped the One True God. This is why Facebook thought I wanted to read it. As it turns out, I was interested, but not in […]

Posted in Books, Christianity, Religion | Tagged nonmonogamy, polyamory, romance | 1 Response

Photo © 2008 Tiffany Dawn Nicholson CC BY-ND 2.0

Favorite Indie Romances

By J. Timothy King on February 17, 2012

I wanted to post this on Tuesday, but I was distracted by the recent holiday. Naturally, I’m referring to National Guys in the Floral Department Day. Every year around this time, if you go into any store with a floral department, you are likely to see a dozen or so men wondering aimlessly in the […]

Posted in Books | Tagged Charlotte Abel, Enchantment, Holly Lisle, In the Eye of the Beholder, indie authors, romance, Sharon E. Cathcart, Talyn, Valentine's Day | 2 Responses

Three Kinds of Love

Three Kinds of Love

By J. Timothy King on July 5, 2011

This is so très kewl! I was watching on NetFlix a Discovery Channel documentary, The Science of Sex Appeal… research for my next novel. Anyhow, at one point during the program, anthropologist Helen Fisher said: I think that we’ve evolved three distinctly different brain systems for love. One is the sex drive, the craving for […]

Posted in Books, Love and Relationships, Love through the Eyes of an Idiot | Tagged attachment, commitment, love, romance, sex, unconditional love | 1 Response

I See You, by Holly Lisle, Book Review

I See You, by Holly Lisle, Book Review

By J. Timothy King on April 12, 2010

I recently finished Holly Lisle’s out-of-print romantic suspense, I See You, the story of paramedic Dia Courvant, who rescued the sole survivor of a terrible car accident, to find her own husband dead in the wreckage. Now, four years later, a series of deadly car crashes has brought handsome detective Brig Hafferty into Dia’s life. […]

Posted in Books | Tagged book review, Holly Lisle, I See You, romance, romantic suspense, suspense | 1 Response

Photo © 2008 Isaac Hsieh CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

A Date at the Laundromat

By J. Timothy King on February 22, 2010

A romance thread at Sherry the Redhead Riter’s “BlogNTweet” forum reminded me of this story. Sherry asked how often we date. Now, of course, I don’t date, because my Beloved (formerly “the Missus”), she doesn’t let me date. (It’s probably better that way.) But we do “date” each other, occasionally… Well… We used to date, […]

Posted in Love and Relationships | Tagged children, dating, love, marriage, relationships, romance

EyeLeash: A Blog Novel (Book Review)

By J. Timothy King on February 18, 2010

Not too long ago, Jess C Scott sent me a PDF of her first indie novel EyeLeash: A Blog Novel, to kick off a series of book reviews I’ve wanted to do, of indie and mid-list novels and memoirs. EyeLeash is the private journal of Jade, a 17-almost-18-year-old girl, who recently graduated from an all-girl […]

Posted in Books | Tagged alternative, book review, contemporary, EyeLeash, indie authors, Jess C Scott, novel, romance | 1 Response

My Favorite Romantic Movies

My Favorite Romantic Movies

By J. Timothy King on February 12, 2010

As it’s two days before Valentine’s Day, instead of coming up with a proper “Friday Fun” post, I thought I’d slack off and just list some of my all-time favorite romantic movies (and TV show episodes). (BTW, pictured to the right are the flowers I bought for the Missus this year, which she picked out, […]

Posted in Entertainment, Movies | Tagged A Good Woman, Broken English, City Lights, Gilmore Girls, I'm Reed Fish, Moonstruck, romance, Star Trek, The Lake House, Waterloo Bridge | 3 Responses

Sneak Peek: The Kiss

By J. Timothy King on December 15, 2009

This goes into the “I probably would never have even dated George, but then he kissed me” category. One of the finished scenes, one that I particularly like, in Chapter 3 of From the Ashes of Courage. BTW, I’ve been wondering whether I should post this novel to my “stories” blog. I usually only post […]

Posted in Ardor Point, Books | Tagged kiss, romance | 1 Response

Groped in Good Taste

Groped in Good Taste

By J. Timothy King on July 23, 2009

Jeremy Brooks, looking surprised A quick anecdote… Jim “Suldog” Sullivan’s post today about being groped by a woman (and then later, by a drunk man), it reminded me of a “groping” anecdote of my own, one that interestingly didn’t make it into the Love-Idiot book. I went rollerskating with some friends, in particular, a girl […]

Posted in Humor, Love and Relationships, Stories, True Stories | Tagged love, romance, sex | 9 Responses

My Happily Ever After

By J. Timothy King on July 15, 2009

The following story is derived from parts I wrote for Love through the Eyes of an Idiot. I met Margaret in February 1992 at a Bible study. We talked. She looked young for her age; she was a little older than I had originally thought, but I didn’t see how that mattered, because we were […]

Posted in About Tim King, Books, Love and Relationships, Love through the Eyes of an Idiot, Stories, True Stories | Tagged love, marriage, romance | 4 Responses

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