Virginia City, Rom Con, Date: When we were younger.
Fullerton Daily News Tribune June 3 1982 page 2From left to right:
Rita Gallager, Cheryl Clarke Kitzmiller, Barbara Kelly, Rita Clay Estrada, Janet Dailey.

Clergyman’s Almanac, 1815

“The indiscriminate reading of novels and romances is to young females of the most dangerous tendency. It agitates their fancy to delirium of pleasure never to be realized and opens to their view the Elysium fields which exist only in the imagination, fields which involve them in wretchedness and inconsolable sorrow. The most profligate villain, bent on the infernal purpose of seducing a woman, could not wish a symptom more favorable to his purpose than a strong imagination inflamed with the rhapsodies of artful and corrupting novels.”

Orange County Chapter Beginnings

Fullerton Daily News Tribune June 3 1982

Orange County Chapter Valentine’s Day doings 1982

RWA Queen Mary Conference

RWA Conference aboard the Queen Mary

RWA Conference aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach CA Program Queen Mary

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A Gothic Tale-circa late 1970’s, Rosemary Rogers, queen of the erotic gothic, publicity tour for Wicked Loving Lies

She’s Banned In Medora-April 18, 1983, Kathryn Lynn Davis’ book is banned in Medora SD

The World According to Barbara Cartland-Feb. 9, 1981

Family Weekly, Jan 9, 1983-Category Romance Novels, Harlequin and Silhouette (has a 1st page somewhere)

I’m Hungry But Not For Food-Forbes Magazine, June 6, 1992, Demographics and Statistics of romance novel industry

Heartbreak Comes to Harlequin-Forbes Magazine, March 29, 1982

U.S. Has Canada to Thank for Harlequin Romances-Los Angeles Times, circa 1979-1980

Romancing The S tone–Herald Examiner, March 1984, movie hype

Janet Dailey– People Magazine, circa 1980

Kathleen Woodiwiss– People Magazine, circa 1980

Romance Fans Can’t Get Enough Sexy Stuff–Life Magazine, 1981, Industry stats

Looking For Love, Fame and Fortune– Los Angeles Times, July 1, 1981, First Romance Writers of America Conference held in Texas

Typewriters Are Clicking Away To Meet The Demand–Magazine and Booksellers, August, 1982, Statistics and demographics

The New Romance Look–Magazine and Booksellers, June 1982

Expanding Romance Market–New York Times, March 8, 1982, Basic Formula, Not a Business for Novices.

It’s Only A Paper Moon (Rosemary Rogers, Tom Huff and Rebecca Brandewyne)–Newsweek, May 10, 1982

Orange County Woman Follows Her Urge-Orange County, CA paper, March 11, 1979, a housewife writes romance

Big Romance For Writers In Anaheim–Orange County Register (CA), Feb. 10, 1984-Romance Writers of America Conference

The Liberation of Pulp Romances–Psychology Today, April, 1983, Why women read romances.

Rosemary Rogers, date and publication unknown

Romance Novels, Chapter 1: Hollywood Comes Courting-Rosemary Rogers, Feb. 8, 1981

The Romance Heroine Should Be Sooo Terriffic, Genre Writers Get Tips Via Conference Here–Romance Writers of America, 2nd Conference Aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA, 1982

Farrah Quitting Charlie’s Angels for Love-Story movie with Lee Majors-Date and publication unknown, the film option for Rosemary Rogers’ book “Sweet Savage Love”

Sweet Savage Prose-San Francisco, April, 1982, Rosemary Rogers

Innocence is Latest Twist in Romantic Teen Novels–The Plain Dealer, Dec. 25, 1981

The Wicked, Loving Lies of Rosemary Rogers- Date and publication unknown

From Bedroom to Boardroom–Time Magazine, April 13, 1981, the changing face of the romantic heroine

Rosemary Rogers–Time Magazine, Jan. 17, 1977

Various Authors-Date and publication unknown, bios of bestselling authors

If The Damsel Is In Distress, Be Sure It’s Career-Related–Wall Street Journal, Feb. 17, 1984, Seminars attempt to touch romance novel writing.