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Gay romance where it should be - alongside mainstream

March 24th, 2011 (02:13 pm)
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Ages ago Alex Beecroft and I had a mad idea. We did an 'interview' with each other, discussing gay historical romance, then sent off a copy to the editor for Romance Matters, which is the Romantic Novelists' Association magazine. Well, stap me vitals, it's in the Spring issue.

Middle of the mag, nice one page spread, listed in the contents under "Gay Romance, what is it like writing about the love that dares not speak its name? Two writers discuss". There's even the words Gay Fiction as a small feature on the front cover.

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Posted by: RosieT (Livbet)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 02:15 pm (UTC)

My copy just arrived today, so looking forward to reading your article.

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Posted by: charliecochrane (charliecochrane)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 02:25 pm (UTC)
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Hope you enjoy it - we were on our best behaviour. There's a longer version we must post sometime.

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Posted by: Jo (josephine_myles)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 02:23 pm (UTC)

Nice one! I wish I could read the text, seeing as how I'm not allowed to join the RNA until I have a novel published. One day, though...

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Posted by: charliecochrane (charliecochrane)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 02:25 pm (UTC)

I'll send you the scan, see if it comes up clearer?

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Posted by: Jo (josephine_myles)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 02:51 pm (UTC)

Thanks - that's great :)

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Posted by: JL Merrow (jl_merrow)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 07:05 pm (UTC)
 Camwolf

You can join as soon as you have a contract for a novel - I asked, and they let me in! :)

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Posted by: charliecochrane (charliecochrane)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 07:20 pm (UTC)

Yeah, they like to let in riff raff like us. :)

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Posted by: JL Merrow (jl_merrow)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 07:24 pm (UTC)
 Camwolf

*sigh* Standards are slipping everywhere these days, it seems! ;)

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Posted by: Jo (josephine_myles)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 09:26 pm (UTC)

OOOH - that's good to know. Hopefully I'll have one of them in a month or two's time...

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Posted by: Erastes (erastes)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 03:22 pm (UTC)

congrats! any chance of rescanning? it's too blurry to read!

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Posted by: charliecochrane (charliecochrane)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 03:28 pm (UTC)

It's not the clearest original. Will upload another version and see if it's better.

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Posted by: rigby22 (rigby22)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 04:45 pm (UTC)

If you double click it reads fine :)
Well done mummy xxx

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Posted by: charliecochrane (charliecochrane)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 07:22 pm (UTC)
 jonny

Thank you, sweetie pie. The new version I uploaded reads a lot better. I'll keep the original for you to look at.

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Posted by: JL Merrow (jl_merrow)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 07:08 pm (UTC)
 Camwolf

Ooh, fantastic! Well done to both of you!
Great to get the genre more in the public eye. :)

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Posted by: charliecochrane (charliecochrane)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 07:23 pm (UTC)
 hunting

Thank you. We're trying to do our bit. Do they have a letters section? You could write to the mag and say how much you enjoyed the article. :)

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Posted by: JL Merrow (jl_merrow)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 07:29 pm (UTC)

*flicks through Winter mag* Apparently not - that's a shame.

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Posted by: charliecochrane (charliecochrane)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 07:32 pm (UTC)

Slightly off tangent - you do notify them of your new releases for the blog, don't you?

C

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Posted by: JL Merrow (jl_merrow)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 07:42 pm (UTC)

*blushes* I haven't actually found the blog yet...
Is it the ROMNA thing that's mentioned in the mag?

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Posted by: charliecochrane (charliecochrane)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 07:43 pm (UTC)
 swans

The blog links from the website. I think ROMNA is like a yahoo group. I e-mailed today to see if I could join it.

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Posted by: JL Merrow (jl_merrow)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 07:50 pm (UTC)

D'oh! *finally scrolls down far enough to find the link*
Curse these people who hide their links in full view on the home page like that! Yes, I think I shall e-mail to try and join ROMNA too.

How did you get listed in the A-Z of authors, btw?
I have probably missed the bleedin' obvious again here...

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Posted by: charliecochrane (charliecochrane)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 08:05 pm (UTC)

It was when they were revising the site, so it may have changed. Maybe I found a contact on that list inside Romance Matters or followed a link on the website?

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Posted by: Gaedhal (gaedhal)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 08:56 pm (UTC)
 B&JForeverYoung118 (Gaedhal)

I kind of like the term "Breeches Ripper"!

But that's just me...

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Posted by: charliecochrane (charliecochrane)
Posted at: March 25th, 2011 12:28 pm (UTC)
 jamie/jonty

I think we nicked that off erastes!

Edited at 2011-03-25 12:29 pm (UTC)

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Posted by: Anne (darthanne)
Posted at: March 24th, 2011 10:30 pm (UTC)
 butterfly

Congratulations, it's great to see gay romance acknowledged and so well in the magazine.

I enjoyed reading the article too. Thanks for uploading the scan.

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Posted by: charliecochrane (charliecochrane)
Posted at: March 25th, 2011 12:32 pm (UTC)
 boats

We were really pleased. There was an original longer version which I must look out and post.

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Posted by: Stevie Carroll (stevie_carroll)
Posted at: March 25th, 2011 06:46 pm (UTC)
 Brig -- Good Show by sallymn

A fun piece. Congratulations (again) to you both.

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Posted by: charliecochrane (charliecochrane)
Posted at: March 26th, 2011 11:36 am (UTC)

Thanks, love.

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