729. RT Rewind: March 2009 Ads & Features

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Hey, where are you going? Get in the time machine – we want to bring you back to March 2009 to check out the ads & features from Romantic Times Magazine.

We’ve got:

Snippy letters to the editor!
Covers that look like shaving cream ads for women
Reading in a recession
Folks explaining steampunk!
Pop vs. Soda
And you’ll find out what words are used in an acrostic of “pandemic.”

TW: In the middle you’ll hear from Editing Sarah – which is when I interject additional info into the episode while I’m editing it – for about a minute and a half. There is some gross fatphobia and mean terminology in that section. Skip ahead when I start reading the paragraph about 30 seconds.

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Here are the books we discuss in this podcast:

We also mentioned:

“When Your Friend Goes Steampunk” by Key & Peele (YouTube)
Booklender.com
BookMooch.com
Paperbackswap.com
“‘Girls’ EP Inks Deal With HBO, Developing Comedy With Mike White” by Lesley Goldberg, December 2, 2013, Hollywood Reporter
“‘Mr. Romance’ woos New Regency” by Michael Fleming, December 16, 2008, Variety

Visual Aids!

These ads for Nicole Jordan and Liz Carlyle reflect the period of time when romance covers looked like shaving ads.

To Romance a Charming Rogue, To Seduce a Bride, To bed a Beauty, and To Pleasure a lady. Each cover is a close up on a woman’s body showing either her side, her back, her knee or her right arm as someone reaches out to untie her corset.

An ad for Tempted all Night by Liz Carlyle. A woman is sitting in an off the shoulder pink empire waist gown and is running her hand up the outside of her right calf. Like she’s in a shaving cream ad.

The Elizabeth Amber Lords of the Satyr series: they’re all naked.

The four covers for the series, Dominic, Lyon, Raine, and Nocholas, all feature nude muscular men with either a strategic sheet of fabric of a hand covering their bits.

Dara Joy covers bring us Joy:

A man is resting his head on his fist. His hair is cascading around him and it is made of hay? Snakes? No idea. It’s a massive pattern around his head that is absolutely not hair.

Death by Ploot Ploot is disappointingly boring. A faded translucent image of a male torso is against a sunset. The type reads Death by Ploot Ploot.

Instant Romantic Gratification! 20% off the print price at the Harper Collins Ebook Store!

This ad for Siren Publishing is a time capsule.

THere are six black and white covers, all featuring various muscular men in poses that flex, and every woman is topless with her hands over her nipples.

And this title in particular, which is just bananas:

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