Cupcake, baby, darlin', sweetheart. In dialogue, are these capitalized like names and nicknames, or left lowercase?
Maybe "Darling" is like "Lovey" on Gilligan's Island.Having said that, I notice that in a recent category romance I just downloaded, "Darling" is upper cased every time it's used.
This is *so wrong* I may have to have coffee to recover my equilibrium.