Georgian Historical Romance – With or Without a Robot 🤖
I am a big fan of historical romance novels. I have an endless collection of Mills & Boon Historicals. There are also indie-published books on my shelf. On their covers, sumptuously dressed women swoon in the arms of barely there men. That is to say, this didn't all start this week. Something did happen this week though. A group of racists on Facebook lashed back at the idea of non-white characters in historical romance. They saw it as off-putting, unrealistic, a fairy tale and a desecration of European history. Obviously, I immediately swore to myself to write a racially diverse historical romance. My historical romance will be set in Georgian England in the 1780s and star Black and mixed race leads. There may also be a robot. How will the robot fit in? Not sure yet. I haven't quite decided on that. The plan is to write a well-researched, high quality work of fiction, with complex main characters. In all senses it will be a historical romance novel, there will ...
