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I've never written a sports-themed romance but the Rio Olympics have put me in the mood. There's Water Polo (drool)! Fencing and Archery (fun for historical fans)! Diving and Swimming (does a body good)! Rugby (All those Alphas)! And of course, Gymnastics! The women are amazing athletes, and they can dance, too. (Is it fair that the women have to dance through their floor routines but the men just tumble? Oh well). And we're just getting into Track and Field. But I'm not sure I've seen a lot of these Olympic sports represented in romance. There is baseball, hockey, football, and NASCAR in romance. What's your favorite sport to read? Or do you prefer your romance without athletes? What are you enjoying most about the Olympics?

  by Amanda Forester I  confess.   I'm addicted to the Olympics.   Even as I write this blog I'm watching the ladies' free skate.   Has anyone had that 'wish I was an Olympic figure skater' dream?   Or perhaps its near cousin, 'I wish I looked like an Olympic figure skater' dream! But alas, I will never jump or spin or pull my leg up over my head (so painful even to watch!).   And as for the skin-tight bedazzled outfits, that's just never going to happen.  (Pic: Yuna Kim by David Carmichael) Despite my utter lack of athletic prowess, or perhaps because of it, I find myself glued to the television watching the games.   Lately, I have been fascinated by sports I only watch every four years when the Olympics come around.   From the skeleton to the downhill, ski jumping to freestyle, I am transfixed watching athletes do things that would kill the average mortal.   I have tried to infect my family with Olympics fever, but the...

For the first time, my young daughter (known online as Little Miss R) is old enough to follow and enjoy the Olympics. She has already told me she wants to learn luge, ice hockey, and "fancy skating"--her word for the figure skating and ice dancing. Poor kid; she's got a klutz of a mother who can't identify at all with the desire to zoom down an ice track at 80 miles per hour. But if reading were an Olympic sport--now, that I might have a chance at. Imagine how this could go: Short-track speed reading: when you pull out a book while you’re waiting in line at the post office. Relay reading: loaning a favorite book to a friend. Cross-country reading: taking books on the road. Always the best part of traveling! What other book-related versions of Olympic sports can you think up? To one random commenter, I'll give a signed advance copy of my May historical romance, TO CHARM A NAUGHTY COUNTESS (which doesn’t inc...