Historical romances may be about the past, but they’re not
dead! Just look at the current popularity of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander
television series on Starz. Network
executives renewed the series for a second season based on overwhelming viewer
response after just the first episode!
And now there’s a new group called the Historical Romance
Network on Facebook and Twitter, which hopes to promote a love of historicals,
whether your taste runs to Regency, Victorian, Medieval, Scottish, Roman,
Egyptian, American Cowboys, or anything that’s happened in the past. Pirates, knights, Vikings, gladiators, take
your pick!
As an author who writes Victorian romance for Red Sage Publishing
with my series The Disciplinarian (Secrets, Volume 15), The Disciplinarian’s Daughter (Secrets, Volume 31) and The Bet (Secrets, Volume 27), I’m
thrilled to see this renewed interest in historicals. Historical authors put
countless hours into research to make sure what we write about is
accurate. For my Roman epic, Conqueror Vanquished
(Ellora’s Cave), every fact about the Roman army I included in the story (what soldiers
wore, how they fought, what they ate, the forts they built) is accurate. Setting
a story in the past actually makes it more fun to write, since you can immerse
a reader in a world long forgotten.
Here are some links to the Historical Romance Network,
including a video they created which you might enjoy:
Twitter: @HistRomNet
I hope you’ll ‘escape to the pleasures of the past’ and try
a historical romance. You might like it!
Until next month,
Leigh
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