We’re back in the time machine, heading to December 2012 to look at the ads and features from Romantic Times magazine.
This episode features a high amount of extreme zany. We’ve got so many treats for you this week, including the Steeple Hill Drinking Game, the reverse Colonel Sanders, Jude Deveraux’s thoughts on modern romance heroes of the time, shifters and more.
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Visual Aids? Of course visual aids!
Nothing about this image makes sense: the sleigh didn’t make those tracks, and the books are stacked in a fan, and it’s all very weird the more you look at it.
Every title reads differently – the last one looks like Banished Shreads?
Remember when Thriller = Heroine’s hair is in her face on the cover?
Also, that predecessor to a QR code is fascinating. Alas, it doesn’t work for me.
We had so many questions about this cover. First, what’s with the kid’s tie?
This is the source of “the Reverse Colonel Sanders” because that’s kinda what he’s wearing.
Also that looks like Jonathan Bailey, right? Or if Jonathan Bailey and David Boreanaz had a baby?
I love the boots; I have questions about the title and the pose.
Look what she found!!!
We had some questions about this cover, too. Why so many arm bands? Whose hair is that, or was that before it was put on his head?
And his abs remind Amanda of this:
The dog, the angel, the devil – it’s all quite a vision.
These are some (not great) pictures I took of a party celebrating the launch of Tiffany Reisz’s book The Angel, a party which was featured in this issue.
And this was the back cover image:
That guy’s expression and posture was giving us the jibblies.
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