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685. RT Rewind: August 1996 Ads & Features


The August 1996 issue of Romantic Times featuring Love and Laughter, a new line from Harlequin, with a big banner at the top and two smaller covers for two of the lead titles, one being Dates and Other Nuts.It’s the 90s so the Ads and Features from the August 1996 issue of Romantic Times are a treasure trove of confusion. We’ve got:

  • A tour of Jude Deveraux’s Grade II Listed Home in Suffolk
  • Barbara Cartland perfumes
  • How should emoji faces be written? Nose or no nose?
  • What is the appeal of “nursing him back to health” plots?
  • And RT is going to answer the eternal question that has plagued womankind throughout the ages. It’s a doozy.

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Here are the books we discuss in this podcast:

We mentioned:

Ready for some 90’s visual aids? OH YES.

Most particular thanks to Live4Art on eBay, who takes terrific photographs

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Brownwyne Wolfe's Once Upon a Tangled Tale: A photograph of a blonde woman in a wedding dress with giant puffy sleeves and a veil flying behind her, being embraced by a VERY blonde frost and tip John DeSalvo in a tux

Frost & Tip!

Lady of Fire by Janeen O'Kerry features a blonde John DeSalvo with no shirt and a kilt, and long gold hair He is lifting a woman with red hair in a nightgown into the sky. Seriously, his hand is under her thigh and her back is arched. Behind her is a giant fire

He’s throwing her into that fire, right?

Venus Rising by Flora Speer, A woman in a strapless gown or maybe a bedsheet is arching her back against the midsection of a shirtless man with a mullet. There's a folly or maybe a spaceship behind them

That looks like a spaceship folly.

The ad for Deeper than the Night - a vampire and a miniskirt! A man in a high collar cape and a mullet frowns while below him he embraces a woman in his cape. She's wearing a short black a line shirt and a button down shirt

The Vampire, and the Mini Skirt! (I would have killed, lol, for a skirt like that in high school.)

An ad for Sweet Rewards by Melinda McRae and Halfway Home by Bronwyn Williams. Sweet Rewards has a picture of two hats, one top hat and one wicker hat wrapped in fabric and topped with flowers. Halfway Home has a picture of a couple embracing and she looks like she's nursing from his naked chest.

HAT! Also – breastfeeding pose!

A not-great-resolution cover of Halfway Home showing the blonde heroine kneeling in front of the hero, whose shirt is unbuttoned and off his shoulders but still tucked in Behind them is a MASSIVE FIRE - it is making them glow so you know they're very close

Apologies for the low res image, but not only is she kneeling/about to bite his nipple/or something else, they’re IN A FIRE.

Everyone is on fire in this issue.

A black and white image of a cover painting - a shirtless very muscular man with a big mullet, a woman with long hair in an off the shoulder gown, leaning into his chest, and they are about to smooch The caption is incredible Celebrity Topaz Man Michael O'Hearn makes his romance novel cover debut on Justine Dare's HEART OF THE HAWK, due out in October 1996. Michael is a bodybuilder and former Mr. America, who won his third Mr. Universe title last December, and who regularly appears as Thor on TV's Gladiators.

This caption has so much incredible information and is an entire journey.

DAME BARBARA CARTLAND CELEBRATES HER 95TH BIRTHDAY WITH SCENT OF ROMANCE BARBARA CARTLAND is marking her 95th birthday July 9th with a special perfume, Scent of Romance. "Any man would want to kiss a woman wearing this—but go no further," she said. Her classic fragrance created by The Perfumers Guild will raise funds for Dame Barbara's charities. Available only by mail order in England, priced at £I2.95 (Approx $17.95). It can be ordered from the U.S. using Visa/MC by fax—011 44 1923 268200.

Barbara Cartland perfumes! They’re on eBay, but I bet they don’t smell great.

An old image of Barbara Cartland in a gown with a single narrow strap and gathered fabric. Barbara's hair is curled around her head and she is wearing a pointed tiara

Check out this portrait of Dame Barbara! The gown, the tiara, the pose. Incredible.

Another ad that also shows how the pivot from clinch to single item covers is happening:

An Avon Books ad that shows two books at the top, Runaway Magic by Deborah Gordon, and Once More with Feeling by Emilie Richards, both have single item covers. Runaway Magic has a partially opened jeweled box with light coming out, Once More with Feeling has a dove carrying a heart locket. Below is Wicked at Heart by Danelle Harmon, which has a shirtless mullet man embracing a woman in a lose gown in a giant rose bush (Ouch) and Someone Like You by Susan Sawyer has a woman with curly hair kneeling on the grass in front of a mullet blousy shirt man who has his hand under her chin. It's a very tender pose

Someone Like You by Susan Sawyer in color - it's very pastel and pastoral, with a blonde woman in a pink gown kneeling in the grass between the knees of a open bloused mullet man who is holding her chin

Pastel and tender poses – looking the black and white covers up to see the color version is very fun.

And, one final cover: is this Peter Gallagher?

Andrea Kane's Echoes in the Mist shows a woman in a pink gown with ruffles, seated on a white iron bench with her legs over a man's lap. The man looks like Peter Gallagher, and he's wearing a burgundy coat and a cravat. They are posed in a garden with MUTANT LARGE FLOWERS like bigger than both of them.

Check out the flowers surrounding Peter Gallagher and his friend: MUTANT LARGE FLOWERS ATTACK!

 

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