A Sword for His Lady by Mary Wine is $1.99! This historical romance is first in the Courtly Love series and I’m digging the cover. Readers loved the heroine, but found some of the couple’s problems seemed to be solved by the hero’s magic wang. Have you read this one?
Daring in a Blue Dress is going to be a romance that hits a lot of catnip buttons for readers: it has a shy, beta hero, there’s restoration of a crumbling Tudor-era mansion, there’s a troupe of medieval reenactors, there are secret passages and smuggling, and there is an octogenarian lady who is Having None of this Shit. I loved the first two thirds of the book, but it fizzled at the end for me. Alden … Continue reading Daring in a Blue Dress by Katie MacAlister
In this week’s podcast episode, we’re looking at the book reviews for the December 2015 issue of Romantic Times, aka RT Book Reviews. Special and massive thanks to Shannon Stacey for sending me this issue! You can also find all the RTRW content at our category page for Romantic Times Rewind. And, most importantly, if you want to listen and follow along with this entry, we have more detail in the audio, but you can … Continue reading Romantic Times Rewind: December 2015 Reviews
In this week’s podcast episode, Or, in this issue, Romantic Times Book Club. How many names did this magazine have?! Special and massive thanks to Kay Sisk for sending me this issue! Ready for an absolute mile and a half of WTFery from nearly 20 years ago? Oh, this is a weird memory lane, y’all. Brace yourself, hold on to your butt, and maybe also grab hold of someone else’s butt to get ready. You can … Continue reading Romantic Times Rewind: July 2004 Ads and Features
TWO REALMS AT WAR Thousands of years ago, the twin gods Kiriah and Bellias made a wager as to who could raise the best civilization. Kiriah created the Fireborn, the children of light, who would wield the power of the sun and the blessings of nature. Bellias nurtured the Starborn, the children of the heavens, who would harness the arcane power that rippled across the night sky and flowed through all living things. And so … Continue reading Fireborn
The Ripped Bodice is back with another round of Summer Romance Bingo. The link above contains explanation of the rules, plus a printable copy of their bingo board. Additionally, you can check out their helpful tweet: Bingo is BACK!!Kick off your summer of reading today! Downloadable cards, rules, recommendations and more are at:https://t.co/zsNUoMryHu#RippedBodiceBingo pic.twitter.com/im9N4b1zEW — The Ripped Bodice (@TheRippedBodice) June 1, 2018 We’ll be playing along in our Goodreads group and helping one another out with … Continue reading Recommendations for The Ripped Bodice’s 2018 Summer Romance Bingo
Second in the beloved, hilarious Regency series that launched the career of New York Times bestselling author Katie MacAlister. If Dare thinks he can escape his fate… Having weathered the scandal of elopement with an Italian count who subsequently had the bad taste to die, Lady Charlotte Collins has set her sights on Alasdair “Dare” McGregor-one deliciously handsome and brilliantly inventive Scottish earl. Then he doesn’t know Charlotte Charlotte doesn’t accept that the McGregor family … Continue reading Noble Destiny
Enjoy unforgettable characters and irreverent laughs in the Regency series that launched the career of New York Timesbestselling author Katie MacAlister You think you’ve got troubles? As a spy for the Crown, Lord Harry Rosse faced clever and dangerous adversaries-but it’s his five offspring who seem likely to send him to Bedlam. At his wits’ end, he’s advertised for a wife and found one, but perhaps he should have been a bit more forthcoming on … Continue reading The Trouble with Harry
If you noticed or clicked on the ads on this site, you helped support advertisers who want to reach romance readers directly, and you help support the upkeep of the hot pink palace of Bitchery. And if you've been looking for an ad for a past month, at the bottom of the ad column is an archive of the advertisements. Thank you to the advertisers, and to you and your fabulous self for being here. … Continue reading Thanking the September Advertisers
While compiling the Rachel Gibson “Which One First?” recommendation list (which I'll be posting this week), several readers mentioned what I've termed the “Frayed Cover Recommendation.” To quote Rita, who was talking about See Jane Score ( A | BN | K | S ), “My copy is worn to the point that the cover is completely frayed.” YES. Exactly. When a book has been re-read so many times, the cover has fallen apart, and perhaps … Continue reading Frayed Cover Recommendations
Time to thank the folks who advertised here for the month of May. If you noticed or clicked on the ads, you helped support advertisers who want to target romance readers, and the upkeep and general mayhem that's part of hosting, postage-ing, and creating content for the hot pink palaceof Bitchery. And if you've been looking for an ad for a past month, at the bottom of the ad column is an archive of the … Continue reading Thanking the May Advertisers
