That title doesn’t sound right, does it? But it is a pleasure to describe the changes coming to his site. The more I think about it, “Growing Pleasures” has tumescent connotations. The phrase simply pulses off the pages. Well, that’s appropriate for a blog specializing in vintage smut!
I’ve been researching authors, publishing houses, and cover artists, and have found a lot of commonality among both historical and “contemporary” romance written from 1970-2000. Names, books, and covers kept popping up that seemed relevant. I had wanted to strictly keep this an old-school historical romance blog. Now I see how shortsighted that was. I’m a reader of all old school romance–historical & contemporary–and there is a strong connection between the evolution of the category and the historical romance genres. That special time in history needs to be told fully if it’s to be remembered accurately.
It will take a bit of change, but I will be adding category (and perhaps gothic romance) authors, covers, and publishing information. I will only focus on romances that overlap the post-Flame and the Flower era to the end of the twentieth century. So while that means vintage romance, that won’t include comics, nurse romances, older Harlequin Romances, or Gothics written pre-1970s (if I do Gothics at all; to be honest, I’m not a big reader of them).
Hopefully, this change will spark some lively conversations, as I’d love to hear your thoughts. Happy reading!