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== Biography ==
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Pam Rosenthal majored in English and went on to co-own a bookstore in San Francisco. She won the [[RITA®: Best Historical Romance]] [[RITA]] in 2009 for her novel ''[[The Edge Of Impropriety]]''.
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A funny thing happened to San Francisco computer programmer and occasional essayist '''Pam Rosenthal''': sometime in the late 1990s she became seized by an urge to write sexy period romance novels. She’d already published some erotica, buoyed by a wave of life-changing feminist discussion about what was possible, permissible, or just plain fun to say about female sexual desire. This led her to explore the history of sexual expression – and to think hard about what love has to do with sex and sex with love, and what sex and love have to do with freedom and respect between equals.
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Or to put it another way, she’d begun taking on the big subjects at the heart of countless lives and also at the heart of romance fiction.
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It was the experience of a lifetime, culminating in 2009 – which was when The Edge of Impropriety won Romance Writers of America’s RITA Award for Best Historical Romance. And also when Pam realized that she’d said all that she had to say, at least in novel form.
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But happily, the books remain, while these days Pam works alongside Michael, her retired bookseller husband, at their copyediting business, P&M Editorial Services. P&M love editing romance (check out their website at pmeditorial.com) and recently they've begun lovingly reissuing selected, revised, and expanded versions of Pam’s romance fiction.
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== On the Web ==
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* Official Website [http://www.pamrosenthal.com]  
  
 
=== See Also ===
 
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== Books ==
 
== Books ==
* ''[[Almost A Gentleman]]'' - May 2003 ([[Kensington]] [[Brava]] Erotic Historical Romance)
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* ''[[Almost A Gentleman]]'' - 2003
* ''[[The Bookseller's Daughter|Bookseller's Daughter, The]]'' - January 2004 ([[Kensington]] [[Brava]] Erotic Historical Romance)
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* ''[[The Bookseller's Daughter|Bookseller's Daughter, The]]'' - 2004  
* ''[[The Edge of Impropriety|Edge of Impropriety, The]]'' - November 2008 ([[Signet]] [[Signet Eclipse|Eclipse]] Erotic Historical Romance)
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* ''[[The Edge of Impropriety|Edge of Impropriety, The]]'' - 2008  
* ''[[The Slightest Provocation|Slightest Provocation, The]]'' - September 2006 ([[Signet]] [[Signet Eclipse|Eclipse]] Erotic Historical Romance)
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* ''[[The Slightest Provocation|Slightest Provocation, The]]'' - 2006  
 
 
  
=== Novellas ===
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=== Anthologies ===
* "A House East Of Regent Street" - December 2004, in the Anthology [[Strangers In The Night - Brava|Strangers In The Night]] ([[Kensington]] [[Brava]] Erotic Historical Romance)
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* "A House East Of Regent Street" in ''[[Strangers In The Night - Brava|Strangers In The Night]]'' - 2004
  
== Interviews ==
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==Awards==
* [http://www.likesbooks.com/rosenthal.html "Pam Rosenthal - Erotica Meets Romance", All About Romance, 2003]
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*2009  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Winner - Historical Romance, ''[[The Edge Of Impropriety]]''
* [http://www.theromancereader.com/nf-rosenthal.html "New Faces 148: Pam Rosenthal", The Romance Reader, 2003]
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*2004  [[RT Reviewers Choice Award]] Winner - Sensual Historical Romance, ''[[The Bookseller's Daughter]]''
* [http://riskyregencies.blogspot.com/2006/01/interview-with-pam-rosenthal.html "Interview with Pam Rosenthal", Risky Regencies, 2006]
 
  
== On the Web ==
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==Recognitions==
* [http://www.pamrosenthal.com Pam Rosenthal]  
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*2008  [[Library Journal]] Starred Review, ''[[The Edge of Impropriety]]''
* [http://www.pamrosenthal.com/blog.php Pam Rosenthal's ALMOST A BLOG]
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*2007  [[Romance Writers of America (RWA) Awards|RITA Award]] Finalist - Long Historical Romance, ''[[The Slightest Provocation]]''

Latest revision as of 01:37, 4 April 2023


A funny thing happened to San Francisco computer programmer and occasional essayist Pam Rosenthal: sometime in the late 1990s she became seized by an urge to write sexy period romance novels. She’d already published some erotica, buoyed by a wave of life-changing feminist discussion about what was possible, permissible, or just plain fun to say about female sexual desire. This led her to explore the history of sexual expression – and to think hard about what love has to do with sex and sex with love, and what sex and love have to do with freedom and respect between equals.

Or to put it another way, she’d begun taking on the big subjects at the heart of countless lives and also at the heart of romance fiction.

It was the experience of a lifetime, culminating in 2009 – which was when The Edge of Impropriety won Romance Writers of America’s RITA Award for Best Historical Romance. And also when Pam realized that she’d said all that she had to say, at least in novel form.

But happily, the books remain, while these days Pam works alongside Michael, her retired bookseller husband, at their copyediting business, P&M Editorial Services. P&M love editing romance (check out their website at pmeditorial.com) and recently they've begun lovingly reissuing selected, revised, and expanded versions of Pam’s romance fiction.

On the Web

  • Official Website [1]

See Also

Books

Anthologies

Awards

Recognitions