Pam Rosenthal
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
- Almost A Gentleman - 2003
- Bookseller's Daughter, The - 2004
- Edge of Impropriety, The - 2008
- Slightest Provocation, The - 2006
Anthologies
- "A House East Of Regent Street" in Strangers In The Night - 2004
Awards
- 2009 RITA Award Winner - Historical Romance, The Edge Of Impropriety
- 2004 RT Reviewers Choice Award Winner - Sensual Historical Romance, The Bookseller's Daughter
Recognitions
- 2008 Library Journal Starred Review, The Edge of Impropriety
- 2007 RITA Award Finalist - Long Historical Romance, The Slightest Provocation
