The Romance MFA / On a Quest to Understand the History of Historical Romance Thu, 09 Jun 2022 18:12:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 /wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cropped-site-icon-transparent-32x32.png The Romance MFA / 32 32 2022 Romance Podcast List Update /2022-romance-podcast-list-update/ Thu, 09 Jun 2022 18:12:28 +0000 https://www.romancemfa.com/?p=1246 It’s true! After a two year hiatus, I’ve managed an update of the Romance Podcast List, with over one hundred active podcasts and more than seventy archived podcasts tracked in …

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]]> 1246 Top Posts of 2020 /top-posts-of-2020/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:54:17 +0000 https://www.romancemfa.com/?p=954 It’s the time of summing up, so let’s take a look at the top posts from the Romance MFA in 2020. By page views, here they are. 10. Victorian Language …

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]]> 954 Beard Science: the attractiveness of male facial hair /beard-science-and-attractiveness-of-facial-hair/ Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:00:31 +0000 https://www.romancemfa.com/?p=1215 I’m working on my third Whitford Crew book and came to a place where I had to go back and count how many days it had been since my hero …

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]]> 1215 Romance Podcast List 2020 Update /romance-podcast-list-2020-update/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 20:38:25 +0000 https://www.romancemfa.com/?p=1200 It’s been a little over a year since I last updated the Romance Podcast List.  The full list is at /romance-podcasts/ but here are the new additions for this edition! …

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]]> 1200 Romance Writers of America and Racism /romance-writers-of-america-and-racism/ /romance-writers-of-america-and-racism/#comments Wed, 25 Dec 2019 00:21:43 +0000 https://www.romancemfa.com/?p=1192 It’s been quiet here since I spent October finishing a book draft, then jumped directly into Nanowrimo to write another one which is just about finished and I was going …

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]]> /romance-writers-of-america-and-racism/feed/ 1 1192 Romance Writer Problems: Prudish Technology /romance-writer-problems-prudish-technology/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 19:27:05 +0000 https://www.romancemfa.com/?p=872 Hey, there was supposed to a post on the blog yesterday. But I’m sick! And starting to worry about my deadline at the end of October! So here’s a filler …

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]]> 872 Gilded Age Bibliography: Primary Sources Available Free in Google Books /gilded-age-bibliography-primary-sources-available-free-in-google-books/ /gilded-age-bibliography-primary-sources-available-free-in-google-books/#comments Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:00:44 +0000 https://www.romancemfa.com/?p=1155 In my own writing and research, I’m very lucky to have chosen the late nineteenth century, or Gilded Age, of American history as the setting for my books. It’s an …

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]]> /gilded-age-bibliography-primary-sources-available-free-in-google-books/feed/ 1 1155 Mary Balogh’s Slightly Married /mary-baloghs-slightly-married/ /mary-baloghs-slightly-married/#comments Mon, 02 Sep 2019 13:00:48 +0000 https://www.romancemfa.com/?p=1131 My next Regency read is Mary Balogh’s Slightly Married, which came to my attention from NPR’s 2015 list of top 100 romances.  In terms of research and plot, it was …

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]]> /mary-baloghs-slightly-married/feed/ 1 1131 Romance genre hot take generator /romance-genre-hot-take-generator/ Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:00:32 +0000 https://www.romancemfa.com/?p=1137 Have you read the latest hot take think piece on romance novels? Romance Twitter was all atwitter about it yesterday.  I only skimmed over it briefly because, as Cat Sebastian …

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]]> 1137 Romance Writer Problems: Everything is Dirty /romance-writer-problems-everything-is-dirty/ Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:00:59 +0000 https://www.romancemfa.com/?p=899 It’s August and I’m going to a music festival on an island. No fancy post this week, but here’s a compilation of Romance Writer Problems so you can snicker over …

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