The Resurrection of the Historical Romance Portal.

I had the good fortune in October last year of being asked to co-host the Historical Romance Panel at Ellora’s Cave’s inaugral reader’s convention, RomantiCon.

The convention was a total blast, but the panel itself was slotted into one of the most strategically awkward places you could get:  The last hour before the most eagerly anticipated bookfairs of the year.  Everyone was gulping down lunch and grabbing their spot in the lineup before the doors opened up for the bookfair in the hour that we were scheduled for our panel.

On top of that,writing historicals is one of the most research-heavy, tomb-ladened sub-genres known to romance writers.  No way were we going to do it justice in the shortened 45 minutes they chopped us down to.

So we got really smart and before we even got to the conference, we built a web portal holding all the live links, reference materials, recommendations, articles and resources we regularly use for our own research and provided that to attendees at the conference so they wouldn’t have to write anything down when they were there.  They could just visit the portal when they got home and everything would be linked up for them.

When I had my big website blow out a few months ago, the portal got lost in the shake-up.  Panel co-host Kathleen Coddington was kindly going to host it for us, but I’ve managed to get my act together and resurrect the portal again on the new site here. It doesn’t look quite as royal purple as it used to, but all the same information is there, and all the links are working again.

Click here to jump to the History Portal.

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