Loving Every Moment

"To be in love is to surpass oneself." – Oscar Wilde

"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night." – Margaret Mead

"Si vis amari ama. // If you want to be loved, then love." – Latin saying

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Hello, and welcome to is LJ's premier and largest community for the discussion of romance novels! No matter what your area of interest -- historicals, contemporary, paranormal, fantasy -- you can discuss it here! Introduce yourself, ask for recommendations, talk about your favourite authors and books, post surveys, read and write reviews. We are a friendly and open community, always looking for new discussion -- come join us and see for yourself!

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Introduction Template

By no means mandatory, but a good way to dive into the community! Use lj-cuts at your discretion; if your answers are short, no need, but if you get into long and involved stories, be courteous and pop that part of the post under a cut. You'll want to post in HTML, not rich text, in order for the markup to work.




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Review Header Template

Also by no means mandatory, but would be very helpful for keeping things organised. Particularly the above-lj-cut part. I'd love to encourage the use of this, particularly for those people who enjoy writing long, in-depth reviews, just to have some sort of standardisation. But I won't bite you if you don't use it, or if you modify it to better suit your own style. ;)




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Rec Lists

The reclists are compilations of the best of the best, divided into respective categories. Here you can find top recommendations if you're looking to dive into a particular period or genre, or if you're new to romance novels entirely and need a good place to start! Peruse at will!

-Historical: Regency-
-Historical: Victorian/Edwardian-
-Historical: Medieval/Renaissance-
-Historical: Scottish/Highlands-
-Contemporary-
-Western-
-Paranormal/Supernatural-
-Mystery/Suspense-

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FAQ
I'm looking for a bodyguard plotline/African safari thriller/15th century Russian court intrigue/other very specific theme. How can I find one?
First, I suggest you check through our rec lists to see if anything there fits your description. If you still don't find anything matching what you want, feel free to post a request to the community in general for recommendations. Our members are very helpful and extremely broadly-read: if it exists, the chances are good that someone here knows about it.

I see you have a lot of tags. What should I do with them?
Use them! Using tags will make your mod very happy, as it means less work for her. I encourage entries to be tagged by (when applicable) author and genre. Be as general or as specific if you want. A contemporary novel might also be suspense or paranormal. A time travel novel could be classified as contemporary and Victorian. If you're writing about an author that doesn't have a tag made, just ping me a note and I'll add it!
There are also tags for requests (if you're looking for a certain kind of book), polls (actual lj-polls or more informal surveys, to see what people are reading/look for/hate/whatever), quizzes/memes, introductions, and "for sale" notices. The review tag is meant to be used for full-length, in-depth reviews -- not the quick run-downs, but the ones that are several paragraphs of explanation and reaction.
A full list of the community tags can be found here.

I'm an author. Can I self-promote here?
Any self-promotions need to go through me, the moddess. If you want to promote your own work, send me an email at callie.r.morris (at) gmail.com, with the header "LJ: romancenovels promotion". Once a month, I will collect all promotions that have been emailed to me into a mod post. Any other promotions I see will be deleted. Why this rule? I've had multiple complaints about people self-promoting when they're not active in the community. The hit-and-runs are not appreciated by our members.

I'm looking to sell off a bunch of romance novels. Can I advertise my sale here?
Yes, occasionally. Don't go overboard, don't advertise the same eBay auction more than once, don't make a weekly habit of it. If I notice a problem, you'll be warned, and excess posts will be deleted. Same goes for any similar promotions, giveaways, etc.

Can I post icons from romance novel art/wallpapers or other graphics/quizzes?
Yup! As long as they're romance-novel related, they are a-okay with me. As with everything, just don't get too spammy -- any graphics posts with more than three items should be under a cut -- and if one person posts a quiz or a meme, don't make a new post with your response; just add it as a comment. Be courteous to the f-lists of others!

OMG there's a new book coming out by my favourite author, and I want to squeal about it even though there are already 18 posts in the community on the same subject. Can I???
Please don't. While we all know it's thrilling when a great author puts out a new book, no one needs her f-list spammed with a ton of posts which say the exact same thing. Share your enthusiasm with someone else who's posted on it! Comments are your friends.

I want paid time/free music/someone to upload something to YouTube. Can I ask here?
No. (And yes, I have seen people ask for all of these things here). Keep it on-topic, folks. Listing a bunch of romance authors and then asking for random free stuff will be considered spamming, and you'll be reported as such.

I run a similarly-themed (romance, history, book) community. Want to affiliate?
Sure! Send me an email at callie.r.morris (at) gmail.com.

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This community is managed by roguebelle - Contact at callie.r.morris (at) gmail.com

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