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All About Romance (AAR)

http://www.likesbooks.com/

"All About Romance - The romance readers home for romance novels, romancereviews, romance authors, and more. For and by romance readers - all with an interactive and back-fence atmosphere. Simply the best romance reviews, and honest, entertaining, and intriguing commentary. We offer printable lists for your next bookstore visit, message boards, and discussion lists. And, don't forget our Historical Cheat Sheet and Web Ring."

Author: Laurie Gold, ed. (laurie@likesbooks.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Books--Romance & Gothic

Bookbug on the Web

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/8078/home.html

"The purpose of this web site is to promote the romance genre and its authors. The site includes an extensive list of upcoming releases (romances)...author email addresses, publishing information, over 1400 readers' all-time favorite romances, readers' comments and mini-reviews, lists of specialty books (angel and ghost romances, romantic comedy)."

Author: June Folk (bookbug@geocities.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Books--Romance & Gothic

Keywords: authors; reviews; publishers; romance

Directory of Romance Authors

http://www.romanticnotions.com/directory/

Alphabetical directory of home pages for romance authors.

Author: Romantic Notions (editor@romanticnotions.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Books--Romance & Gothic

Gothic Journal

http://GothicJournal.com/romance/

The online version of the Gothic Journal, a news and review magazine for aficionados of romantic suspence and gothic novels. The site features reviews, a (fee based) lending library, and highlights of articles from the print version of the journal.

Author: Kristi Lyn Glass (kglass@GothicJornal.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Books--Horror

Entertainment & Leisure--Books--Romance & Gothic

Gothic Literature

http://members.aol.com/iamudolpho/basic.html

While this site is not in any way extensive, it provides an excellent introduction for those users who may need a concise definition of gothic literature. The definition itself is quite thorough. Included are URLs for further research on the WWW, links to a few research papers on the topic as well as a few electronic texts. A good and aesthetically pleasing start to research!

Author: Franz Potter (IamUdolpho@aol.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Books--Romance & Gothic

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Literature by Time Period

The Jane Austen Information Page

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janeinfo.html

Everything that the Jane Austen fan might wish for including e-texts of her 6 novels and her minor works, Jane Austen trivia, a biography and a bibliography.

Author: Henry Churchyard (churchh@uts.cc.utexas.edu)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Books--Romance & Gothic

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Authors

Keywords: Jane Austin; E-texts; Biography

The Literary Gothic (LG)

http://www.litgothic.com/

"The Literary Gothic is a Web guide to all things concerned with literary Gothicism, which includes ghost stories, 'classic' Gothic novels and Gothic fiction (1764-1820), and related pre- and post-Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to the mid-C20.  The goals of this site are two-fold: to collect in one place all links pertaining to the Gothic novel, Gothic fiction, and all other forms of literary Gothicism and subsequent traditions, and to make available etexts of important and overlooked early works of Gothic or supernatural interest."

Author: Jack G. Voller (litgothic@litgothic.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Books--Romance & Gothic

Arts & Humanities--Literature--Literature by Time Period

A Regency Repository

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/7517/index.html

"Features information and links to the fashion, music, art, politics, literature, and military history of the era, for lovers of Regency romances."

Author: Kristen Skold (kskold@aol.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Books--Romance & Gothic

Keywords: Regency

Romance Novel Database

http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~sooty/romance/

"Contains bibliographic information, subject access information, images, and readers' ratings for a variety of novels in different romantic fiction subgenres. The database is designed to function as both a reader's advisory tool and a source of general information about books and authors in the genre of romantic fiction." You can browse by title, author, subgenre, or rating.

Author: Christina K. Powell (sooty@umich.edu)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Books--Romance & Gothic

Keywords: Authors; Reviews

The Romance Reader

http://www.theromancereader.com/

This site is devoted to romance novels, ranging from Contemporary to Regency. It offers news and reviews while features provide feedback from both readers and authors. Also available are lists of books in each genre, soon to be released titles, author interviews and readers' recommendations.

Author: D.N. Anderson (editor@theromancereader.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Books--Romance & Gothic

Keywords: Gothic romances; Regency romances; Historical romances; Contemporary romances

Romance Writers of America (RWA)

http://www.rwanational.com/

"RWA is a non-profit professional/educational association of 8,000 romance writers and other industry professionals." Find the inside scoop on romantic novels on the RWA homepage. Bestseller lists, upcoming releases, and an index of romantic author homepages are a portion of what is offered here.

Author: Libby Hall (info@rwanational.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Books--Romance & Gothic

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