"Readers don’t want a history lesson, they want a love story set in an historical setting." Sasha Cottman. I love reading historical romance, because the unique settings and conventions of the time provide another layer to the story. As a contemporary fiction author, I've always wondered though, is writing historical fiction more difficult to write, …
Get serious, it’s only romance
Romance writers and avid romance readers are used to criticism. When naysayers are being polite, they suggest romance is fluffy make believe. Harsher critics will go for the jugular and claim that romance is simple, trite and adds nothing meaningful to the literary world. Well, ask a publisher and they might tell you otherwise. Romance …