Books, Books, Books

I’m Judith Ashley, author of The Sacred Womens’ Circle series, romantic fiction that honors spiritual paths that nurture the soul and celebrates the path from relationships to romance.

Welcome to Romancing The Genre’s 4^th Blog-O-Versary! I hope you had a  chance to stop by our Mega Global FB Event April 29 and 30. We had an amazing time and celebrated RTG’s reach from the UK to Australia and many points in between.

During the month of May, the Genre-istas will be talking about and recommending great books for your summer reading pleasure and our guests will be book sellers, including librarians and Kobo.

Whatever your reading pleasure, the Genre-istas’ have you covered.

Like historical?

Check out Bronwen Evans and Vivienne Lorret (Regency) Kris Tualla (Norwegian)  Margaret Tanner, Australian/WWI

Like romantic suspense?

Madelle Morgan, Linda Lovely, Robin Weaver or RS with a Latino twist, Terri Molina

Like Paranormal?

Diana McCollum, Sarah Raplee, Nadine Mutas

Like SciFi?

Pippa Jay

Like Westerns?

Paty Jager writes westerns with native American elements
Susan Horsnell from Australia writes American westerns set in Texas.

Do you know reluctant readers? Check out B.A.Binns for contemporary Young Adult (YA) books that feature diverse characters.

Steampunk?

Mae Pen

Military Romance?

M.L. Buchman

Older heroines? Check out Courtney Pierce’s boomer books

What about contemporary?

Marcia King-Gamble writes contemporary with a Caribbean flavor

And Judith Ashley writes contemporary rich with spiritual elements and a touch of the mystical.

Whatever your reading pleasure, you’ll find our authors’ books available through major e-retailers and their websites.

Please stop by on weekends to meet our featured book sellers and learn what you can do to support your local independent brick and mortar book store. 

I do love May,

May is one of my favorite times of year. Like spring itself it has been a month for rebirth and renewal.

I can't believe I've been blogging with this wonderful group for one year. It is indeed cause for celebration.

Being a writer and just a tad curious (OK, maybe more than a tad) I looked up other celebrations for the month of May.

This month you can celebrate Asparagus, Asthma and Allergy Awareness, Better Hearing and Speech, National Bar-B-Que, Egg, Duckling, Hamburger, Mental Health, Salad, Photo, Physical Fitness and Sports, Strawberry, Older Americans and Transportation. Whew! That's just the monthly celebrations, we won't begin to get into the weeks or the days designated to celebrate things.

On a personal note I met my husband in May. Our first date was May eighteenth, twenty nine years ago. It was a blind date and little did I know what I was in for!<G>   We also moved to Arizona in May, arriving here on Memorial Day nine years ago. Six months later I sold my first book. A few years later my husband started writing and now we are both published.

This blog will post on May 14th so I checked the calendar to see what is celebrated that day. According to the calendar, in 1804 Lewis and Clarke started their famous expedition. It is also National Dance like a Chicken Day.

Unable to top that, I'll simply say, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to my fellow Genre-ista's. I've enjoyed this past year and can't wait to see what the next one will bring.

Happy Blog-o-Versary

When I joined Romancing the Genre I was looking forward to blogging once a month and each month we were given a different theme. I found myself enjoying not only writing my blog but reading the others take on the same theme.

What surprised me was how much I learned not just from participating in Romancing the Genre but from the other members as well as the guests. I learned about new authors and new books. I also explored the blogs of more writers and learned from not only what they blogged about but how they blogged.

My blog, IT'S BETTER THAN YOU THINK, (elainecharton.wordpress.com) had been up for a while. I had originally posted it on another server and had moved it to Word Press. With the move I wanted to improve the blog, using the things I had learned up to that point.

My husband blogs almost every day but that wasn't for me. I found a schedule I could work with, at least three days a week. Then I knew I wanted to write about things I was passionate about. After all that's what bought me into the Genre-ista's. Our shared passion for the Romance novel in all it's many sub genre's.

The RTG blog fulfilled my need to blog about writing. In my personal blog I could talk about my other passions. When I'm not writing, or talking about it. I am reading and cooking so that is what I decided to write about. The rest of the time I would blog about whatever I wanted. Funny thing, I started getting people stopping by and leaving comments. Something that had rarely happened before.

So happy six month Blog-o-Versary to Romancing the Genre and to my fellow genre-ista's. I can't wait to see what the future brings.