Memory #1: Eight years ago, Judith Ashley and I metaphorically held hands with eighteen other dedicated writers and jumped into the virtual world of blogging. Some of us were published authors and some were not-yet-published. We were various ages, nationalities, and ethnicities from around United States and the English-speaking world. Many of us (including me and Judith, the "Blog Queens") were new to blogging.
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We called our brand new group blog Romancing the Genres. Here we are, eight years later, publishing our 2,395th post! It's been a wild ride.
Memory #2: After about a year, we decided to add a 'sister blog' where the Genre-istas, as we call ourselves, would offer free flash fiction stories to our readers. The writers would retain all rights to the stories. Later, we decided to recruit non-Genre-ista writers to offer stories as well. We called the free reads blog Free Reads from the Genre-istas and Friends. (Eventually, we retired the sister blog.)
Memory #4: About this time, I published the short stories "Enchanted Protector" and "Curse of the Neahkahnnie Treasure" in an anthology with Judith Ashley and Diana McCollum, LOVE AND MAGIC.
Memory #6: Genre-ista Michelle Monkou was approved to do weekly re-caps/reviews of the hugely popular STARZ Outlander television series based on the Romantic Time Travel Books by Diana Gabaldon.
Last, but not least, Memory #8: In 2018, RTG teamed with the authors and organizers of the historical twelve-book/twelve-author project,
12 awesome authors...books...12 decades...12 love stories...
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7 comments:
Loved this stroll through the last 8 years with you, Sarah. Certainly captured some of the Best Moments and at times The Craziest Ones.
I had fun writing this post, Judith! It's been such an adventure.
It's been fun being part of this great endeavor you and Judith built.
Hard to believe 8 years have passed and there have been wonderful blogs and some great events. I remember the chats featuring literary personalities like Kathryn Falk, founder of Romantic Times and the RT conventions., Dianne Moggy VP of Editorial at Harlequin, and NY Times Bestseller Carla Neggers. Fun times.
It's been a great eight years! Such a great group of authors who belong to RTG. And the guests that the blog queens come up with have been informative and charitable with there time. Great going ladies.
Thanks for all the great memories--I'm proud to be a genre-ista!
Amazing legacy of blogging. You should both be very proud of having started this AND keeping it up. I'm sure it's a lot of work but certainly something many of us look forward to reading.
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