If you enjoy genre-blending romance like the Cambion Club series, you may be interested in a bookfunnel promotion featuring the work of a dozen different historical romantasy authors. We’ve got vampires, shapeshifters, magicians. . . something for every taste!

More about Besotted Books

In my last email, I mentioned that author Andie James is launching a kickstarter for a new historical romance publisher, Besotted Books. The kickstarter will go live on June 9, but you can explore the preview page now.

Besotted Books is committed to:

• Publishing books the Historical Romance community will love while also expanding the genre by embracing all time periods, locations, and whose stories we are telling 

• Allowing new voices into the community and embracing current authors who may be looking for a new home—an alternative to Trad Pub as they turn away from the genre

• No AI. Period. All of our books will be human written, human edited, and human designed

• A place readers can come to find new HistRoms they know are written by real people and that they will love

• An opportunity to buy subscriptions direct from the company instead of supporting large retailers

June Reading Recommendation

As you know, June is Pride Month. If you’re looking for LGBTQIA+ Regency fiction, I recommend Hari Conner’s YA graphic novel I Shall Never Fall in Love. It’s a loose Austen retelling with queer and BIPOC characters. It’s sweet rather than spicy, and both the story and the art are absolutely adorable.

Seriously, I loved I Shall Never Fall in Love so much I gave a copy of it to my tween daughter. She, in turn, recommended it to her father when he needed to pick a YA romance for a reading challenge. So it comes with the approval of half our household!

Happy reading, folks!