It’s Read Around the Rainbow time!!! If you’re new around here, we’re a bunch of queer romance authors who get together on the last Friday of every month and blog on the same topic. This month we’ll be chatting about historical romance, more specifically Regency.
I don’t write historical stories, and I rarely read them.
If you could see time passing in a blog post, you’d have noticed the several-minute pause between the last sentence and this one. I simply don’t know how to continue this post.
I think it’s amazing how people have the patience to sit down and write a historical story. I fear I’d never finish another story if I were forced to write historical. The amount of research would have me screaming. This, of course, have to do with my complete lack of interest in history.
It’s important! Don’t get me wrong. Everyone should have a grasp of history. But I read to escape, and I’m not keen on escaping into a world where there’s a war on women and queer people. We’ve fought long and hard to get to the point we’re at today, and we still have a long way to go, but I find little joy in reading stories where people like me are murdered simply because they’re like me. Or I have it easy. I’m married to a man. I would’ve floated under the radar. I’d only have to amputate part of myself, not destroy it completely. So yay.
And I know it’s hypocritical since I have no problem reading about vampires, werewolves, and magic users murdering each other. I even enjoy a good murder, but vampires and werewolves aren’t real. Women and LGBTQIA2S+ people are, and they lived through it…or most of them lived through it, at least. Only a portion died.
That being said. A good character is a good character no matter what world or era they’re in. So we’re talking Regency, and I had to google. Officially, the Regency only lasted nine years. Feels insane that we have a name for such a short time, but it also said that the Regency era of British history is commonly understood as the years between 1795 and 1837, and I know absolutely nothing about it. It was when we had the Gustavian era here. Wars and other boring stuff LOL.
But scrolling an MM Romance Regency list on Goodreads told me I have read some Regency books. The Doomsday Books by K.J. Charles were listed, and it’s not too long ago I read those. I enjoyed them. As I said above, a well-crafted character is captivating no matter what era they appear in.
If you’re a fan of Regency books, check out what the others have to say! I’m sure you get a lot more out of it than you did my post 😅
Ofelia Grand 
Must admit I struggle to write entire books set in the past, too, but I quite often weave historical ‘bits’ into my more contemporary stuff which seems to be less challenging!
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Yeah, that’s one way to do it 🙂
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