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I’m out and about today @ SF Signal: Mind Meld
A couple of weeks ago, Heather from The Galaxy Express approached me and asked if I’d be interested in participating in a round robin type feature on SF site discussing SF romances. I’ll be honest, I was kind of hesitant at first because I don’t read all that much science fiction. But I decided to at least think about it and give it a try. Final participants include Linnea Sinclair, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Angela James, Susan Grant, Michael Banks, B.B. Medos (me), Elizabeth Hand, Laurie Green, Lisa Paitz Spindler, Sasha Knight, Sandra McDonald–and, of course, Heather. This is what resulted. The topic? From Star Wars to Avatar, stories blending science fiction and romance have persisted for decades in books, films, fan fiction, and even video games. However, despite such evidence, there are those … Read entire article »
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The great vintage science fiction romance hunt begins
I have to say it’s limping along badly. Did anyone else know that Dorchester Publishing has only been around since 1971? I was like, huh. That’s almost scary to me for some reason. We’re talking the purveyors of the Leisure Books and Love Spell. Powerhouse lines in romances and yet also one of the most often mocked both for content and covers. It’s probably a toss-up between them and Avon for the “outrageous” prize and this is said by someone who has oodles and oodles of books by both publishers so don’t think I’m looking down my nose or anything. Okay, why this sudden curiousity about Dorchester? Well, it started with A Brief History of Science Fiction Romance over on The Galaxy Express and a question about whether there were any science fiction … Read entire article »
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Ten Nights of Love: Overview & Afterthoughts
Yes, I know it is past Valentine’s Day, but my ever so logical brain wouldn’t let me ignore posting a list of chronological links for this entire Ten Nights of Love series for future reference. Following that, you’ll find a few thoughts that crossed my mind as I made this journey through the years. First, here’s the full list of posts in order: The Introduction Grace Livingston Hill Emilie Loring Glenna Finley Julie Garwood Amanda Quick Dara Joy Stephanie Laurens Christine Feehan Linnea Sinclair Shelly Laurenston Cover Gallery Now for my overall thoughts completely unrelated to individual authors and simply about the journey I just took. I find it fascinating that what started out as an attempt explore the changes in sexual content in the books turned into something completely different. Or maybe it didn’t. The thing is I’m not sure we can ever … Read entire article »
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Ten Nights of Love: Cover Gallery
Happy Valentine’s Day When I first came up with idea of doing this Ten Nights of Love series of posts, I wanted to find something to illustrate them and the obvious choice was the books. As I sorted through my collection, though, I realized that they also showed a lifetime of changes in the covers themselves. So, I wanted to see a gallery of one cover for each author in one post and thought you might enjoy it, too. I included Ten Nights of Love just to keep things even although I may have sort of cheated elsewhere for the purposes of showing an early electronic cover. Odd how few clinches there are… Related Posts:Ten Nights of Love: Overview & AfterthoughtsTen Nights of Love: Shelly LaurenstonTen Nights of Love: Linnea SinclairTen Nights of Love: Christine FeehanTen Nights of … Read entire article »
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Ten Nights of Love: Shelly Laurenston
For most of the previous entries in this Ten Nights of Love series, I automatically knew who the various authors were going to be and all I had to do was make sure I arranged them in chronological order to tell the story. For this last post, though, I knew what the content was supposed to be about but had three author under consideration and three different reasons for selecting them, which for some odd reason totally and completely confused me, but more on that in a moment. You see, a couple of years ago, I actively started dipping my toe, heck, my entire foot, into the so-called erotic romance sub-genre. I call it “so-called” because I’m still not entirely convinced that all the books with that tag are labeled … Read entire article »
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Ten Nights of Love: Linnea Sinclair
Next up here I have a special treat. I was digging around some old electronic files recently and found some things that I treasure almost as much as some of my old paperbacks. A lot of people nowadays know about a book called Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair. But do they know about or have the original story that appeared as an e-book called Command Performance from before she made it to the big time in print? I do, plus several of her other books in their original e-book form. Anyhow, I bring all this up to point out that prior to say, about, oh, 2001, I’d most likely already bought some e-books off the Internet but I wasn’t all that sold on the practice. To say it was a … Read entire article »
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Ten Nights of Love: Christine Feehan
When I first arrived on the Internet in the mid-1990s and eventually discovered various forums and websites related to romance novels, one of the things that fascinated me was that romance had an official definition – as found on the Romance Writers of America website. I mean it’s perfectly logical that it would, at least in terms of the need authors have to be able to market their books to the publishers who in turn need to be able to sell them to the readers. That’s business. I can respect that need. What amazed me was how stripped down that definition was from how I viewed the romances I read and that I’ve always read whether I realized it or not at that point. What I’ve always wanted in a romance … Read entire article »
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