gothic romance

Defining the Genre: Gothic Romance

by Keira 09.26.2011

Gothic romance is a genre you can’t find all too easily today. It was a popular genre a few decades ago and lovers of this romance sub-genre will have to troll secondhand bookstores to find titles. Classics of this genre are novels such as Wuthering Heights and Scarlet Letter. Well known authors of Gothic romance/horror [...]

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Review: The Master of Seacliff by Max Pierce

by Sandra Scholes 08.25.2011

by Sandra Scholes, guest reviewer Andrew Wyndham gets the offer of a lifetime to tutor an unruly child at a huge mansion where its master, Duncan Stewart starts out as an imposing and brooding man of means who shows Andrew what life at Seacliff is like. Duncan slowly warms to Andrew, his new tutor who [...]

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Get into Bed with Leanna Ellis (Author Interview)

by Sharon S. 08.23.2011

This author interview with Leanna Ellis is conducted by Sharon S. Sharon: How much of a departure from your normal writing was Forsaken? Leanna Ellis: Hi, Sharon! Thanks for having me here today! In some ways Forsaken is quite a departure for me, and in other ways it isn’t at all. I have never written [...]

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Review: A Cottage by the Sea by Ciji Ware

by Karin 07.26.2011

by Karin, guest reviewer from Savvy Thinker A Cottage by the Sea by Ciji Ware is being reissued — it is a good choice for reissue for those of us, like me, who never read it the first time — with some new material on brain function, chemistry, and recent findings in the scientific literature [...]

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Review: Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark by Donna Lea Simpson

by Keira 06.20.2011

I have a funny story with this book and by story I mean an epic fail. I was returning some books back to the library and somehow Lady Anne sneaked back with them. When I realized what I’d done it was as if I’d been amputated! So painful. Of course I returned the books on [...]

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Get into Bed with Lisa Greer (Author Interview)

by Keira 04.30.2011

Keira: What do you like best about gothic novels/gothic romances? Lisa Greer: I like the sense of menace and that there is usually a choice between two men. Keira: What are some of your favorite covers for gothic romances? Lisa: Oh wow. There are so many. Mary Stewart’s The Ivy Tree is one. Another is [...]

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Get into Bed with Amanda Grange (Author Interview)

by Keira 08.31.2009

Come join me for a fun interview with Amanda Grange, author of Mr. Darcy, Vampyre! Keira: Mr. Darcy, Vampyre has a very Gothic romance feel to it. What inspired you to write it that way as opposed to straight paranormal? Do you feel that Gothic romance and paranormal are similar beasts? Amanda: I love Gothic [...]

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Romancing the Novel Carnival #4

by Keira 08.02.2009

Welcome to the fourth edition of romancing the novel. This one is pretty much a link frenzy. We have links on RWA, romance in general, book reviews, author interviews, industry professional interviews, writing tips and more! If you read all of the articles shared below I could conceive that a majority of your day would [...]