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If you’re reading this post, you’ve inadvertently been misdirected to our old blog site, which is no longer updated. Click here to get to our home page, which is our READING ROOM. From there, you will have access to the entire Romantic Shorts website.

If you are a subscriber to this blog site, that subscription will no longer update. Please visit the Reading Room or our Writers’ Lounge, both of which offer subscriptions for different updates, depending on your reason for visiting…. If you are a reader, we invite you to subscribe to the Reading Room updates. If you are a writer, consider subscribing to both the Writers’ Lounge and the Reading Room to keep up with our other authors and everything else Romantic Shorts.

Thank you for coming with us on this journey.

Alexandra Brown.

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Good afternoon all,

Okay, here’s the scoop. All of the website changes that needed to be made have been successfully completed. I am quite excited (and tremendously proud) to have accomplished this without crashing the entire site! Who knew?

The only thing that remains is the status of our subscribers. Those of you who subscribed to Romantic Shorts prior to the web host changes, may not have been transferred over to the new subscription service. I think I have figured out who you are and am sending an email message out to those of you who might have been affected. If you receive this blog post as part of your subscription, I apologize for the duplication.

The fact is, at this time, so close to the publication of our first story, you won’t want to miss out. If indeed your subscription has been lost, that is to say if you read an email message directly from Alex Brown at Romantic Shorts, instead of one through the subscriber service, would you please take a moment to re-subscribe.

I promise you won’t regret it.

And I thank you all for your patience and understanding through this growth phase of our development. It’s been a little rocky. But a great experience nonetheless.

I look forward to providing you with quality romantic short stories that you will be sure to share with friends for years to come. And I welcome you to this little corner of the web known as Romantic Shorts.

Alex Brown.

More Website Changes On The Way

Just a quick note to let our subscribers and visitors know that we are tweaking the site again.

The idea is to stream line the site and prepare for full capability in preparation for our launch. This is just one more step in the process. With any luck at all, it’s one part of the last stage of changes that should ready the site for activity and growth.

There is a strong likelihood that existing bookmarks and history links will no longer work properly. Please check your links.

Our URL http://romanticshorts.com will still take you to our homepage. Should that fail, please contact us to let us know that we’ve missed a problem. Email us at contactus at romanticshorts dot com

Thank you for your patience and support, and for staying with us during our growing pains. It’s an exciting time, even with its challenges. A year from now this’ll all feel as easy as drawing stick people and we’ll be on to bigger and better obstacles!

Alex Brown.

About Romantic Shorts Subscriptions

Just a quick note to our Romantic Shorts subscribers:

First, WELCOME!! We’re so happy to have you along on our journey into the romantic unknown. Everything is on track and underway for our launch in August. Stay tuned for the exact date!

Second, our website is currently divided into three sections:

Our Readers’ Room,
Our Writers’ Lounge, and
Our Bookstore

We just want to make sure that you’re getting the information that you need/want. If you have subscribed to our Readers’ Room updates, you will receive details on everything related to our Readers’ experience. Announcements, communications, and, of course, our stories, will all be available here.

If, however, you’re a writer and would like to be kept up-to-date on all things relating to Romantic Shorts’ Writers – calls for submissions, competition details, guidelines, etc. – then pop on over to the Writers’ Lounge and subscribe to that feed. While not as entertaining, it is there that our writers – present and future – will find everything they need to know about writing for Romantic Shorts.

Of course, you can subscribe to both rooms. Many of our readers will likely want to become our writers, and without a doubt, our writers will be readers! We just wanted to be clear about all that.

And now it’s back to work… So much to do… We’re launching a new publication, you know!!

 

Writers’ Competition Winners!

Romantic Shorts

is pleased to announce the winners of our

New Year New Story Writers Competition

A centuries old curse unites good and evil, future and past, prisoner and guard.
The power of love can release these captives from their tortured fate.
But only if they can find each other and rediscover their feelings.
Will the cards finally lead them to their heaven on earth?
Or will they be forced to relive their quest yet again?

Rosetta Stone by Ashley Long

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Having mortgaged her very self for her marriage and children,
Laura finds herself trying to accept ‘content’ as an acceptable measure of her life.
Until a handsome stranger she knows too well
shows her that passion conquers acceptance,
and opens a door to a new beginning.

A Day In St. John’s by Deborah Schenberger

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While VP Evangeline Martin knows exactly what she wants and how to get it,
the off duty side of this walking contradiction has no idea what her heart truly desires.
At least, that’s how Cedric sees her.
But when her life is threatened and it falls on him to protect her,
it’s difficult to say whose heart is in more danger
and which darkness holds the greater risk.

What The Darkness Proposes, by Kirsten Blacketer

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In the true spirit of Romance,
this story deftly takes the reader on a journey through the past in the mind of a man in love.
As we follow his memories to a time and place where his heart was free,
we hope and want for the girl on the train to be his one.
We are left with the feeling of our own first loves:
the joy, the anticipation, the excitement, and the fear,
and we connect with him in a way that leaves us in awe
of the strength of those tender moments spent with our hearts on fire.

Play Me A Song, by Jeannine Wynne

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It is our profound pleasure to introduce these new authors to you. Congratulations to our writers!

Watch for their winning entries, as well as many other addictive romantic short stories, to appear at RomanticShorts.com beginning in August. Biographies and links to our authors’ pages will be released shortly. Readers can subscribe now to catch the launch of our much anticipated publication by using the SUBSCRIBE button to the left. Watch for announcements, polls, and perhaps the odd contest as we prepare to provide you with some of the most eagerly awaited reading on the Web.

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Working Out The Errors

Just a quick update to confirm that all is good at Romantic Shorts.

We’ve switched web hosts and are still experiencing the odd glitch. Typically, we’re running into problems with old links, search engine links, and bookmarks no longer working. Sometimes.

We’ll figure it out, and in the meantime, thanks for your understanding and patience as we learn our way through this. Everything’s on track for an August Launch.

So much to do – so little time. Back to work…

Welcome to the Reading Room!

Welcome!

Romantic Shorts is a new online publication that will feature romantic short stories that are not only engaging and memorable, but that are just the right length to enjoy over a half hour break in your day.

Whether it’s lunch time at work, a boring commute, or a wind-down at the end of the day, we’re here to add a little romantic playcation to your day.

Set to launch this summer, we plan to grow our treasure chest of exciting and remarkable writers so that we can introduce our readers to a new story every day, with archives for the ones you miss, and, eventually, hardcopy, digital, and E- anthologies for when you’re on the go.

Thanks for visiting. We’ll see you again real soon.