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Originally Posted by Atunah
What?  WTH. No no no no. I also read Broken Wing by her and loved it too. I was going to savor the few other HR by her slowly. I hate to hear this 
This always makes me sad. Historical romances are my favorite romances and I am always sad when the writers jump to like contempo or romantic suspense since I always struggle to like many of them. I especially don't have a lot of luck with contempos.
I hate it that historicals aren't as popular anymore and its all CR, PNR and new adult now. And serials. If nobody wants to write well written HR anymore than I'll have to keep reading back lists I guess. It still makes me sad as there are less awards, less polls etc for HR.
I also notice that indy romance authors tend not to write historical romances, its mostly contempo/NA and such and often they are shorter. And shorter of course doesn't do for historicals.
Sometimes I feel so left out in romanclandia when talking about new released stuff. I seem to be going backwards with back list titles. Not sure if I am liking the changes in the genre.
Sigh, sorry, gone off on a rant.  |
We are in the same boat. I feel the same way you do. I refuse to buy any of the new stuff coming out even by favorite authors. The problem is people are just burned out of Regency and that's all mainstream publisher's will published will a few westerns here and there. I think Harlequin is the only publisher that still does other time periods but they do not sell well.
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Judith James says:
May 4, 2013 at 9:03 am
I’ve been writing epic style (as in taking place over a period of years) historically accurate romances for about five years now. The last four have all taken place in the 17th century. They’ve done well critically, but I honestly can’t say they’ve sold well. I was a little dismayed when I was on a panel at the RT convention a couple of years ago. The topic was why do you write in the time period you do? I launched into an explanation of the excitement of the period, the challenges it gave my characters et. Sabrina Jeffries, who was on the same panel said she used to write 17th century historicals but they didn’t sell well enough to make a living at. My own experience has been the same. A tremendous amount of work and research for at best, so-so sales. I have one restoration era story left to publish to finish a story arc that covers most of the period, but I am switching to fantasy and paranormal after that. It seems to be where the sales are and as much as I love non regency fact based historicals, for me at least, they don’t pay the bills.
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