Showing posts with label Romance writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romance writing. Show all posts
Georgette Heyer - Literature in the Library Event
February is the month of romance and here at Sutherland Library we are celebrating all things in the name of amour.
The library has a large and passionate romance reader membership - this includes a number of library staff! Our pink wall of Mills and Boon novels is frequently perused, best-selling romance novels grace our popular 'Fastback' stand and there are over 1220 items listed as 'love stories' in our library collection.
To build on this passion in February 2013, we are lucky enough to welcome Amanda Jones, a Regency romance enthusiast and presenter to give a talk on the woman who some call the founder of the Regency romance genre, Georgette Heyer.
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| Georgette Heyer |
A bit of background on Heyer:
'Heyer essentially established the historical romance genre and its subgenre Regency romance. Her Regencies were inspired byJane Austen, but unlike Austen, who wrote about and for the times in which she lived, Heyer was forced to include copious information about the period so that her readers would understand the setting.'
This talk will be the first in our series of 'Literature in the Library' (LITL) events for 2013. For more information and bookings, visit the event page for this talk.
If you fancy yourself to be a budding romance writer, or if you just want to have a bit of fun, we're running a little competition in the first 2 weeks of February that may just see your writing skills giving you an advantage! Visit the competition page for more information and to enter your piece of romance writing. You might win a special prize!
Happy Valentines!
Romance Writing Competition
What could be better in February, the month of love, than reading about how the hero and heroine met in a romance novel? This month the Library is inviting aspiring romance writers to set our readers hearts aflutter by writing the opening paragraphs of that first fatalistic meeting...did sparks fly, with instant recognition of their soul mate connection, or was that first meeting memorable for all the wrong reasons... Submit your entry online for your chance to win a special boxed set of "Fifty Shades of Grey" by E. L James (kindly donated to the Library). The competition will run from 12.00am February 1st, until 11.59pm February 14th. So let your imagination run wild, but keep your writing tame, so we can publish the winning entry along with highly commended entries, on the Library News throughout February.
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