It’s time for the Ads & Features of the October 1988 (!!) issue of Romantic Times Magazine.

Y’all. We’ve got:

• Vintage gossip!
• Blind items that are very easy to guess!
• Danielle Steel’stwoblue Mercedes!
• Fuchsia covers with giant flowers and startled animals!
• Riverboat gambler romance heroes!
• And a truly paltry obituary for an extraordinary author.

It’s 1988. Fuchsia.So much fuchsia.

Blanket content warning for romances written in the late 80s. Be ready for some very offensive tropes.

Do not, and I mean this most sincerely, skip the visual aids. It’s 1988 y’all. The covers are glorious!

LINKS. So many good links!

• “Double Trouble: One or Two Women?”by Gillian Whitlock about the alleged plagiarism of Lucy Maud Montgomery’sThe Blue Castleby Australian author Colleen McCullough.
• Sam Lord’s Castle, Barbados
• Sharon Spiak Art listing forWary Hearts
• Eye Heart Romance’s review forMistress of the Seasby Ruth Langan
• Clothes in Books: “Mary Burchell aka Ida Cook”– thepatternsfromMab’s Fashions!
• Mary Burchell’s Wikipedia page
• A BluSky thread from John Bull on Mary Burchell
• The Pudding magazine interactive article about romance coversby Jan Diehm and Sandra Chiu

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