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The Difficulties of Writing Really Old Erotic Historical Romances.

 
Ever wondered why there aren’t more erotic historical romances out there?
I’ve always written the odd historical romance, but my output has dropped considerably since the market bottomed out rather dramatically a few years ago.  Since erotic romances bloomed in the early 2000’s I naturally switched my attention over to erotic historicals, and my very first [...]

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Two Sorts of Historical Romances

I’ve read a few historical romances in my time, and they divide themselves, more or less, into two groups.
Historical Backdrop Romances
These romances are set in historical times, but apart from the odd “nay” and “verily” and the gowns and destriers, the hero and heroine could be staring longingly at each other across any crowded bar [...]

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The So-Called "Dead" Historical Romance Market

I keep coming back to this question because I keeping getting conflicting information about it.  On the one hand, the in-take side of the market — editors, agents, distributors — say that the historical romance market is pretty much stone cold dead, and trying to sell an historical romance manuscript is like trying to sell [...]

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Release Dates: Heart of Vengeance, Betting with Lucifer and Dead Double

The release date change that cause me the biggest scurry was Betting with Lucifer. It was supposed to be coming out next month, and got bumped to December 10, only a matter of about ten days, but I’d already started booking blog tour dates and so forth.  Anyway, mark this one in your calenders, as [...]

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New for History Addicts and Historical Romance Writers – The History Portal

One of the official duties I carried out at RomantiCon last weekend was to sit on the Historical Romance panel on the Sunday.  That’s me in the pic to the left, second from the left, sitting next to the lady in the kirtle, listening to the lady expound on the pitfuls of writing historical romances, [...]

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The Complete Ellora’s Cave Primer for Newbies Who Are Too Afraid To Ask – Part 2

What Ellora’s Cave Has To Offer You, The Reader
Jump to Part 1: What is Ellora’s Cave?
Jump to Part 2: What Ellora’s Cave Has To Offer You, The Reader
Jump to Part 3: How to Ease into Ellora’s Cave
Jump To Part 4: Other Way To Keep Up With Ellora’s Cave
Last post, I covered what Ellora’s Cave [...]

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RomantiCon 2009 – I'm on the Historical Panel.

RomantiCon 2009 is coming closer — 35 days today:  5 weeks exactly.  (But who’s counting?)
As it’s the first RomantiCon ever, I’m wondering just how wild a party it will be.  When you consider that the Romantic Times convention is usually five days of craziness, any convention hosted by Ellora’s Cave has to be off the [...]

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And A New Cover for Heart of Vengeance, Too.

It seems to be the week for covers at Jasmine Jade.  All you Medieval Romance lovers are one step closer to the good stuff.  The cover for Heart of Vengeance came out yesterday.  I don’t have a release date yet — that’s the next step, once I get through the painful editing process (my editor [...]

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Upcoming Event: Heart of Vengeance — Medieval Romance Ain't Quite Dead Yet

All you historical romance lovers will be pleased to know that Cerridwen Press have picked up Heart of Vengeance, which was out of print, and agreed to re-publish it.
It will be out sometime in 2010 — I’m guessing somewhere in the mid-year, given their current release schedules, but I’ll know once contracts have been finalized [...]

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