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.

We also discussed:

• Our Rec League for Sad Historical Businessmen
• Kickstarter: The Jane Austen Deluxe Collection
• Kickstarter: After the End – A Dystopian Romance Collection
• Kickstarter: Bonkers Romance
• Episode 604. Dessert Projects with Katee Robert
• Episode 620. Romance and Kickstarter with Oriana Leckert
• Review: Fresh Romance Volume 1
• Review: Fresh Romance Volume 2
• BBC News: “‘Every word has come back to haunt me’: China cracks down on women who write gay erotica”

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