Romancing The Blog launched on Tuesday, January 5, 2005, with a post by Katie MacAlister. Nearly five years and over 1500 posts later, the team of volunteer “Kates” has decided to put RTB on hiatus. If things go as planned, RTB will return mid-year with a new look, a new mission, new management, and even more insight into the romance industry. But for now, we say good-bye.
Over the years, we’ve brought you posts by readers, editors, agents, reviewers, academics, librarians, published and aspiring authors, professionals in publicity and Web design, and you, our readers, through our Open Blog Night program. We’ve worked hard to have genre-related posts for our visitors to read every weekday morning, and many weekends, too, whether posts on the craft of writing, living a writer’s life, managing To Be Read mountains, approaching agents at conferences, querying editors, book piracy, what readers want and don’t want, promotion, historical accuracy, covers, DRM, ad infinitum.
We invite you to check out our nearly five years worth of posts–by columnist or by date–and catch up on anything you may have missed while we take our much needed break. There’s a wealth of information stored in our archives, and the site will remain online with the posts accessible. Thank you for your support over the years, your participation, and your thought provoking discussions. We hope to be back soon.
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I’m so sad about this. I’ve met many new authors, followed recommendations of books to read, learned about promotion and looked forward nearly everyday to reading the variety of information here. Thanks for all you’ve done and I’ll be watching for your return.
So sad to see you go on hiatus! I’ve enjoyed reading this blog since the beginning. I’ll miss it while you’re on break!
It has been a pleasure as a blog reader, an aspiring author, and as a columnist to be involved with Romancing The Blog. Thank you for the opportunity in my earliest blogging days to give voice to my thoughts.
I look forward to what the new year will bring for RTB.
Looking forward to your return! Thanks for everything you have done for this industry
So sorry to hear about the hiatus. Thanks for everything – looking f/d to your return. So many websites shutting down; so sad.
I’ll miss this as one of my daily morning stops. I’ve met some great people here, been forced to think, and learned a lot.
I’ll be watching for the return.
I am sorry y’all are taking a leave. This is one of my favorite blogs, and I look forward to your return.
Really it’s been five years? Hate to see ya’ll go even for a little bit.
The strength of Romancing The Blog has always been the variety of voices and styles that could be found here. I, for one, will miss it.
Well this is sad news for a New Year’s Eve. I look forward to the blog’s return in the summer.
I’m stunned. I’ve been reading the blog since day one! Hopefully RTB shall return next summer, bigger and better than ever. I’ll dearly miss the site.
Sorry to hear RTB will be on hiatus as I enjoy the posts here immensely, but it’s a break well-deserved. (Please come back soon!)
Yep, I second (and third and fourth) all the thoughts here. It is one of the only writing blogs I read regularly (my cup of coffee in the morning).
I had a blast blogging here. I met so many people through this blog.
Thank you to all the ‘Kate’s for putting together such a wonderful site. I will miss it!
Enjoy your hiatus! If things go as planned, I look forward to seeing the new look.
This is depressing…I come upon this blog one day after it goes on hiatus! I’ll certainly go through the archives, but it was the “what’s tomorrow” that I was looking forward to…
Bummer… this is one of my few regular stops!
I’ll miss you all so much, and look forward (pleeeeeeze don’t change your mind!) to your return mid-year. I know daily blogging is hard work, but you do it so well!
Miss you; look forward to your return.
This is a great site; I look forwards to reading the new blogs in the future.
I miss you guys so bad! I hope you come back online. This is my favorite blog for polite, provacative discussion of all things related to the Romance genre. I visited every day without fail.
Please let us know of your return date when it gets closer – we wouldn’t want to miss the party!
G.