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[reviews_and_ramblings]

Today I received a proposition! no, it's not a spam email from some dating site. The promoter of an Italian Literature Festival, with a fondness for romance, asked me to held a one hour panel to the next festival on How to Write an Harlequin Romance and Being Published... well, I'm surprised, since first I'm not a writer and so I don't know nothing on How to Write and second I'm not the "classical" Harlequin romance reader...

The fact is that finally, in Italy, Italian romance authors begin to have an audience (more than 90% of the romance in Italy is translated romance from UK and USA), and the Festival wants to organize an intense workshop to help them.

I think that I will accept the offer, I'm quite an ego-woman and I like to talk of romance, so... I need to dust off my Harlequin romance remembrance and maybe, if in the audience someone will ask me what I actually read...

Comments

[anahcrow.livejournal.com]

That's so exciting, Elisa! I tell people they need to read your blog to know more about the romance and m/m writing industry. You are an awesome resource. I hope you can do this panel!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Thanks Anah. This will be more a traditional romance festival, so it will be more about the history of romance, but I think that I will like it. Elisa

[anahcrow.livejournal.com]

Think of how much you can learn there, too. :) I'm excited to hear what you come back with. I think the traditional romance industry has a bearing on our m/m romance, too, so it's important to know about it. I'm lucky that Dianne knows romance so well (she has been reading romances for years), because I have only just started learning in the last two years.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I have more than 20 years as romance reader behind my shoulders, and it's never too late to try something new, like me two years ago with M/M romance. Elisa