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What are the best Georgette Heyer Romances? Poll:

by Keira 04.18.2011

Georgette Heyer wrote over fifty novels in her lifetime. Forty of them were full length romance novels or historical novels. Wow! This was all before computers! Now with new trade versions of her books coming out again, her name is cropping up everywhere: on blogs, on Twitter, in emails. Vote for your favorites! Let new [...]

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Review: Cindy Ella by Robin Palmer

by Keira 11.18.2010

I’m a sucker for Cinderella plots. My first one was long ago and on the state reading list for eighth graders, you’ve probably heard of it: Ella Enchanted. The movie by the way is nothing like the book. The only similarity was the names and locations, but this review isn’t about Ella Enchanted or the [...]

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Elizabeth Chadwick Interviews Herself – Split Personalities???

by Guest Blogger 09.22.2010

by Elizabeth Chadwick, guest blogger and author of The Greatest Knight I’d like to say many thanks for inviting me to be your guest blogger. I’m really pleased to be here! Whenever I go out on the road and give talks about historical fiction, certain questions are asked on a regular basis, so I thought [...]

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Defined: Emotion and Passion, pt 1

by Keira 05.07.2010

I sent out a query on Twitter to romance authors and readers if they’d be interested in answering two quick questions. These two questions are ones that I personally love to ask romance authors when I interview them because the answers are always different and unique even though both deal with emotion and passion. It’s [...]

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Romance Novel Cover Design

by Keira 03.06.2010

The romance novel industry has been designing covers for a very long time. We’ve seen swooning couples, floating heads, headless bodies, photoshop overlays of couples and scenery, women in fancy dresses, and plain fancy font covers with inserts. The current trends of floating heads and headless bodies are an interesting oxymoronic mix. On the last, [...]

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Breaking Dawn, Midnight Release Parties

by Keira 08.05.2008

Friday night of last week, fans of the teenage vampire romance by Stephenie Meyer gathered at bookstores for the release of Breaking Dawn, the fourth installment of the Twilight Saga. They were dressed as characters in the books, as vampires in general and in particular as Edward and Bella. Several went on dates to the [...]