Anne Golon’s Angelique
Over 22 million Angélique books in print, says the cover of my 1975 Bantam Books’ edition of Anne Golon’s scandalous novel. Are things really sexier in France? Is Anne Golon’s Angélique a …
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Finding Romance stock photos
Family vacation time and novel revisions haven’t left me enough time to finish reading and processing Angelique, so let’s continue on the theme of covers. Did you notice that all …
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Here’s part two of my pulp cover round-up, featuring the titles in the Mid Twentieth-Century Love Stories unit of my reading list. (Last week I shared covers for the Romantic …
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My next reading in Angelique, which came out in the 1960s. Nearly every edition shows the heroine falling out of her dress in a most scandalous fashion, so I’m expecting …
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Antique Advice from The Married Lady’s Companion: When your daughter falls in love
I get a kick out of reading old books on archive.org and Google Books. Today I’d like to share an excerpt of valuable advice from The married lady’s companion : …
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Annemarie Selinko’s Désirée
Here’s another epic romance riding on the coat tails of Gone With the Wind. It’s even blurbed that way on some editions: “The most fascinating historical novel since Gone With …
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Rereading Anne McCaffery’s Killashandra
Between sick and travel last week, I’m not ready to discuss Desiree yet. However, I did use my sick day to reread Anne McCaffrey’s Killashandra. The book was a high …
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Author Interviews from the Romance MFA Syllabus: E.M. Forster (and bonus Stephen Sondheim)
Taking Lessons from Author Interviews Years ago, when I first got serious about writing, I downloaded a volume of author interviews from The Paris Review onto my Kindle and read portions …
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