{"id":2041,"date":"2023-03-08T11:48:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T11:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2023-03-08T11:48:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T11:48:31","slug":"romance-reading-group-popular-romance-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2023\/03\/08\/romance-reading-group-popular-romance-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Romance Reading Group: Popular Romance Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This will be on <strong>Wednesday 15th March<\/strong> at <strong>6:00pm BST<\/strong>\u00a0via\u00a0<strong>Zoom<\/strong>: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/romancegroup.wixsite.com\/home\/event-details\/popular-romance-covers\" target=\"_blank\">RSVP here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Romance Reading Group is giddily welcoming its two new organizing members &#8211; Carly and Katie &#8211; and celebrating with its first spring session on popular romance covers. We have put together a selection of romance book covers that showcase different design styles and we would like you to join us with your own show and tell. Bring your favorite (or least favorite, or most cringe, etc.) or add your book covers <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1YPowJeH5RlwiYKK03j1K8_CFcv-_uCLu9kGBHim6UPo\/edit?usp=sharing\">here.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is a book cover a proper indication of the enclosed story? Are you annoyed by film\/series adaptation covers? Which covers are the most marketable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, you can just show up for a chat but if you have time, you can find some optional pre-session material attached below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Text 1: \u00a0Ebook Launch (anonymous, n.d.): <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ebooklaunch.com\/30-romance-novel-covers-to-fall-in-love-with\/\" target=\"_blank\">30 Romance Novel Covers to Fall in Love With This Year &#8211; Ebook Launch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Text 2:\u00a0Goris, An. Goris, An. \u201cHidden Codes of Love\u202f: The Materiality of the Category Romance Novel.\u201d <em>Belph\u00e9gor. Litt\u00e9rature Populaire et Culture M\u00e9diatique<\/em>, no. 13\u20131, 13\u20131, May 2015. <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">journals.openedition.org<\/a><\/em>,<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/belphegor.616\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.4000\/belphegor.616<\/a>. [<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/belphegor\/616\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/belphegor\/616<\/a>] (Open access!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be on Wednesday 15th March at 6:00pm BST\u00a0via\u00a0Zoom: RSVP here. The Romance Reading Group is giddily welcoming its two new organizing members &#8211; Carly and Katie &#8211; and celebrating with its first spring session on popular romance covers. We have put together a selection of romance book covers that showcase different design styles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2023\/03\/08\/romance-reading-group-popular-romance-covers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Romance Reading Group: Popular Romance Covers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":597,"featured_media":2042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romance-reading-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}