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By Heather Osborn On Aug 9 2011, 1:21 pm

Hi, this is Heather Osborn, Samhain Publishing’s Editorial Director, here to talk to you about our new line – Retro Romance. Retro Romance is a digital reprint line, designed to bring out-of-print, hard to find, classic romances into the digital age.

Like many of you, I started reading romances at a very young age. My first “grown-up” romance reads were Barbara Cartland books, thanks to the gift of a grocery bag full of them from an aunt when I was 12. After that, there was no stopping me! Like any voracious reader, I read as much as possible, through any means possible. This meant getting books from the library, used book store, thrift store, etc, etc, etc. Because I wanted to maximize my reading, I never kept books I read, instead trading them in at my local used book store to enable me to buy even more books.

What seemed a good idea at the time, has now come back to haunt me, as I would give anything to re-read some of those novels, whose titles and authors have since left my head entirely. With the advent of Samhain’s Retro Romance line I now have a second chance. I can rediscover beloved reads, and with the digital format, I need not worry about reading a book to death or destroying my only physical copy.

For authors who have older titles and want to release them digitally, but don’t care to act as their own cover artist, production assistant, editor, or distributor, Samhain’s Retro Romance line is right for you. We will take on the burden of scanning print books into digital files, copy editing, formatting into all of the various digital formats, cover art, advertising and promotion, etc. For more information, please see the Submissions section on our site.