Hot or Sweet: What’s New is Old is New Again. Or is it?

Thinking in circles on the eve of the reissue of The Bookseller’s Daughter, next Tuesday as an eBook from Samhain Publishing.

Or perhaps I’m thinking in spirals, as an ex-bookseller and ex-bookseller’s wife, who’s written a book whose opening scene (taking place in a brick and mortar bookshop) will now be read on a Kindle or Kobo or whatever. An opening scene that includes banter between a girl who spends her days on a bookstore ladder, and a guy who’s slipped across the French border, carrying a pack of forbidden books, both erotic and political.

Because before the French Revolution (which is when this sexy historical takes place), the King’s censors were on the lookout for both kinds of transgressions, erotic and political. Plus ça change… the more things change… the more they remain the same. Or so I think, anyway, wondering whether a book that was considered scorchingly hot in 2004 (it won Romantic Times’ Readers Choice Award for Best Sensual Romance of 2004) would be considered rather quaintly sweet nowadays.

Well, I guess I’ll find out soon, from reviews of the reissue. Or from new or old readers.

Let me know. I’d love to hear what you think

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