Guest Author, Jane Feather with ROMCON GIVEAWAY!
by sue on May.26, 2010, under Book Chat
Setting: Late Elizabethan England
Subgenre: Historical Fiction
Hero: Will Creighton
Heroine: Rosamund Walsingham
One sentence summary:
Ingénue from a powerful Elizabethan family finds passion and maturity as she weaves her way through the plotting and conspiracies of a devious court and a fledgling secret service.
Scene you like most and would never cut:
All the scenes with Marlowe and the players, both on stage and off it.
Thing your heroine would never be caught dead doing/saying:
“No, your majesty, I won’t.”
Your hero, is he a boxer or brief kind of guy:
It would have to be briefs – boxers wouldn’t work with trunk hose and codpieces, besides which he does rather fancy himself as a ladies’ man.
Ancillary character you had the most fun with:
Christopher Marlowe
Your heroine’s favorite hobby:
Sketching
Your hero’s favorite hobby:
The theatre
What you think readers will like best about this book:
Watching Rosamund grow through love and tragedy into a strong, independent woman.
The person that readers want you to write about but you haven’t yet:
Actually no one’s said.
What’s next:
A romance trilogy set in Georgian England about three brothers in search of unusual wives.
Rushed to the Altar, on sale 6/22/10
What is it about historical romance in particular that attracts both readers and writers to the genre?
GIVEAWAY!
Winning ticket is good for ONE ($125) Reader Registration to RomCon 2010 - July 9-11, 2010 in Denver, CO. Winners must be US residents. The base ticket grants admission to all RomCon 2010 award ceremonies and core reader events, but does not include meals, travel, or hotel accommodations. Meals are available for purchase when the attendee registers. The ticket has no monetary value and cannot be redeemed for cash. Unclaimed tickets expire June 15, 2010.
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June 30th, 2010 on 12:49 pm
Historical romance sweeps us away to another time and place while still grounded in reality. Plus it’s a good way to learn history wwith a spoonful of sugar!
Thak you for the gift.
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May 30th, 2010 on 7:33 pm
Hey can I use some of the material here in this blog if I reference you with a link back to your site?
May 29th, 2010 on 9:12 am
I think the attraction to historical romance novels is the fact that not only do you get a good love story, you also get a chance to experience a whole new world. I love learning about places and how people were back in a different time period. I try to put myself in the character’s place and wonder if I were in that time period, if I would respond the same way or if the character was in “present day” how would they respond.
May 28th, 2010 on 3:54 pm
The reason I love historical romance, regencies in particular, is that everything in the stories seems more vivid. The wit is wittier, the grit grittier, the love truer. Though lives of the servant class were miserable, the existence of servants in the stories means all the humdrum details of life — present at least by insinuation in contemporaries — is removed, making them more like fairy tales.
That must make Georgette Heyer the Hans Andersen of romance.
May 28th, 2010 on 4:13 am
I think its more people are swept up in how things were instead of how things ae now the beauty in the fashions and colors and balls all of it
May 27th, 2010 on 6:41 pm
What attracts me? Perhaps the unreal notion that men and women, of the aristocracy in particular, have a bit more time to be together … I’m sure that does not necessarily bear out in real life but hey, aren’t Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen writing accurate history? Haha, what a kettle of fish question!
May 26th, 2010 on 4:01 pm
Historicals just tend to enhance the romance in a romantic novel - if that makes sense. The setting, clothing, etiquette - all presents a type of glamour that contemporary settings sometimes don’t provide.
I can’t wait to read this historical novel and your new series this June!
May 26th, 2010 on 1:59 pm
The historical romance is like a lovely dream for me. I can be a princess who get her prince.
May 26th, 2010 on 11:56 am
I think the thing that draws me to historical romance is that it extends the fantasy. Contemporary settings are so familiar. Especially ones in the U.S. From Kentucky to Colorado it seems like there are big box stores and the same restaurants and the same classes. Historical settings give additional distance to even familiar places because of the TIME! I love them. Especially non-Regency.
May 26th, 2010 on 11:44 am
Hi Jane and Sue,
I don’t normally read historical romances, but I think I’m going to have to add this one to my TBR pile. (also, please don’t add me in the running for Romcon, although I would love to go, maybe next year)
Thanks,
Dawn Chartier
http://www.dawnchartier.com
NOT AN ANGEL….
May 26th, 2010 on 9:55 am
i think historical romances attract readers because it allows them to be transported to another time. i personally love anything dealing with history!
May 26th, 2010 on 8:04 am
Thanks Jane for posting — Chivalry is not dead & it is something readers adore in Historical romances.
Congrats on your series & much success!
Sue
May 26th, 2010 on 3:55 am
Thank you for your post, Jane and Sue.
You asked us a good question; I wish I had a good answer. The best I can come up with is this.
I enjoy reading historical romances about characters I can identify with in situations I can relate to, but who live in a world in which the rules are different from those of my own. Therefore they must overcome obstacles that would never arise in my own life, or work through their problems in ways I wouldn’t, or both.
As a history buff, I insist that historical romances be grounded in real history. And that’s where my problem with much of the sub-genre lies.
I’m not talking about inaccurate details and minor anachronisms. I mean distorting history on a profound level.
For example, take the most common theme of today’s historical romances. With so many works, I gather from their descriptions that their purpose isn’t to celebrate love, or even sex. Their purpose is to celebrate marriages of convenience.
Personally I’ve never read or heard of any real-life man and woman who hated each other, and were forced by authority or circumstances to marry, yet still lusted for each other, and ended up passionately in love. So why is this story so popular? That’s a question for those who go for this sort of thing to answer. Obviously there are plenty of such readers, so I won’t be missed.
But even with MOC historical romances crossed off my list, and those with other, less common themes I don’t care for, there are still some works I CAN read. And enjoy.
The best ones make history come alive in ways that well and truly stimulate the reader’s imagination. And it’s there that, as William Faulkner famously put it, “The past is not dead. It’s not even past.”
Keep up the good work!
May 26th, 2010 on 2:59 am
(Please don’t enter me in the contest, I would be unable to attend).
I think it has to do with the society structure we do not have today. Where women were ladies, adored fashion, gossip, the arts and reading. They attended balls and entertained. There was high society and certain protocol and etiquette to adhere to.
I think it also goes back to a time where men really had to court and romance a woman, declare his love publicly. Women were treated with a certain care and respect. I think every woman fantasizes about gallant chivalrous man.