Romancey Pants

Romance is ducking awesome. And so is diversity. Join us!


I’m Living. I’m Happy. Thank you, Category Romance.

Friends, this is pretty much all I have to say today. People who shame romance? I have no time for you. People who say, “Yay, Brit, good for you! You go on reading category romance because it helps you to feel good,” thank you because you’re my sort of people.

And whatever it is that makes you feel good in YOUR life, you have my support too. As long as it isn’t something like murdering people’s pet lizards. Though if you’ve read down this far, that’s VERY unlikely to be you.

If you celebrate, Happy Easter.

If you’re a Cadbury’s Cream Egg, I’ve got my eye on you.

Love to you all.



About US

Welcome! I’m Star Tavares. I’m queer, nonbinary, and intersex, and I use they/them pronouns. My hubby Jake is LGBTQIA+ too, as is our duck, name of Duck—he’s super-ducking awesome. He likes to call himself an award-winning duck because we wrote a screenplay about him that won some awards, and who are we to argue?

We used to publish in the romance genres, but after we came out, we thought romance didn’t want us anymore. But you know what, toots? We were wrong.

Now we’ve rebuilt our confidence and are back to living our Romancey Pants life, writing, reviewing romance movies, reading romance novels, and doing a whole lot of stretching.

Want to know more about Star’s writing credits? Under another name, Star has published romance stories, novels, and novellas with presses like Harper Collins and Cleis, and has won awards for their shorter works from the likes of Glimmer Train, Screencraft, and Narrative, where they also worked as an editor. More recently, Star’s nonfiction about gender identity has appeared in The New York Times and at Huffington Post Personal.

Please follow us here for romance reviews and personal rambles. And thanks so much for reading.

Let’s do this!

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