Introducing: Romantic Times Rewind!

We’re doing something very fun: we’re traveling back in time!
Ok, sort of.
Starting this week, on Friday 6 October, Amanda and I are co-hosting Romantic Times Rewind ,  a new podcast series where we look back at old issues of RT Book Reviews , aka Romantic Times Magazine! 
Remember those?
Each month, Amanda and I are going to re-read old issues of RT, and record two podcast episodes each month. One episode will be looking at all the reviews by genre in a particular issue, and the other will look at the features, ads, and book covers inside .
So on October 6, the podcast episode will be all about the reviews from our first trip down Romance Memory Lane with the May 2014 issue of RT Book Reviews. Then, on October 20, we’ll be looking at the ads and feature articles in that issue on the podcast.

But, wait, wasn’t RT a magazine ? Yes! And podcasting is a very not-visual medium!
So in addition to the podcast episodes, I’ll be posting about our adventures going back in time, RT-style, here on SBTB, as well as on Instagram and, for that sweet sweet nostalgia, on Tumblr .
Plus, if you’re a member of the Patreon, you’ll have access to the complete issues we’re looking at, so you can read along with us – and tell us which books from back issues you’d most want to read.
The archives for Romantic Times Magazine and RT Book Reviews are not online anywhere that I’ve seen, and the site went dark in May 2018 shortly after the closure of the magazine and the end of the conference was announced. Some issues are at the Bowling Green State University Browne Popular Culture Library, and perhaps I’ll take a field trip at some point, but otherwise, back issues are a little tricky to find!
Most humbly, I ask: if you have back issues of RT Book Reviews or Romantic Times, print or digital, and you’d like to send them to be, PLEASE get in touch with me – sarah AT smart bitches trashy books.com. I’m scouring eBay magazine vendors and trying to gather as many as I can, and right now I have some from 2014, 2015, and 2016.
Part of the inspiration for this series comes from the absolutely wonderful podcast Listen to Sassy, where Tara Ariano, David T. Cole, and Pamela Ribon re-read old issues of Sassy Magazine, which was a formative part of my teenager-hood. After buying two old issues of RT on eBay, I realized that this could potentially be a fun adventure, and thus Romantic Times Rewind was born!
I hope you’ll follow us on Instagram and Tumblr (LOL) if you haven’t already, and that you’ll join us for a very fun journey into Romantic (Times) History!