So, although the Romance Writers of America decided, after some soul searching, to continue to define romance as that sweet, sweeping feeling of insanity love between two people (rather than, as some members wanted, between a "man and woman"), Hyatt Hotels apparently doesn't feel the same.

Male/male romance novelist Laura Baumbach attended the Romantic Times convention in Houston last week, and found out that the host hotel, the Hyatt Regency Houston, had a problem with her books, her promotional material, and apparently, gay romance in general.

On her blog, Sensually Wicked Man Love (would I make that up? COULD I?), she wrote:

I write gay erotic romance and fiction. I write in a RWA accepted genre. I’m at a romance conference. My writing wins awards. My books are on best selling lists on both Amazon and B&N. My work is good! I own a small press that print publishes only gay erotic romance and fiction, MLR Press. But I couldn’t find my promo and that of the other gay work I represent anywhere.