It’s July 2016, and we’re back in the time machine to check out the ads & features from this issue of Romantic Times Magazine!

We spot an SBTB friend in the letters to the editor, and we talk about romances translated into English, the appeal of the wounded hero, and we spot an ad that’s very clearly some Tay-fic, as I’m calling it. We also discuss an article about Kickstarter in romance – and this is 2016. Look how far we’ve come – and how much RT had its finger on the pulse of new trends.

The July 2016 issue also has several scrapbook-style pages of the RT Convention in Vegas. We recorded a separate episode about those pages, with some conference memories, analysis, and memorabilia, and that will be the bonus episode for this month, dropping on August 26, 2025, for Patreon subscribers, with pictures galore.

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Here are the books we discuss in this podcast:

We also discussed:

And the PDF of “Broken Heroes, Healed Hearts” by Sophie Barnes. (Please comment if the link doesn’t work – I am 92% sure I did this correctly!)

Visual aids? YES VISUAL AIDS!

I read this as, “The man who shattered her back.”

This is the ad for RECTOR, prompting us to say, “I hardly knew her!” Also: one of these books is not like the others.

Hey, we know Heather S, too! (Hi Heather!)

2016 TayFic anyone?

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