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name: Pam Rosenthal
about: A funny thing happened to San Francisco computer programmer and occasional essayist Pam Rosenthal: sometime in the late 1990s she became seized by an urge to write sexy period romance novels. She’d already published some erotica, buoyed by a wave of life-changing feminist discussion about what was possible, permissible, or just plain fun to say about female sexual desire. This led her to explore the history of sexual expression – and to think hard about what love has to do with sex and sex with love, and what sex and love have to do with freedom and respect between equals. Or to put it another way, she’d begun taking on the big subjects at the heart of countless lives and also at the heart of romance fiction.It was the experience of a lifet A funny thing happened to San Francisco computer programmer and occasional essayist Pam Rosenthal: sometime in the late 1990s she became seized by an urge to write sexy period romance novels. She’d already published some erotica, buoyed by a wave of life-changing feminist discussion about what was possible, permissible, or just plain fun to say about female sexual desire. This led her to explore the history of sexual expression – and to think hard about what love has to do with sex and sex with love, and what sex and love have to do with freedom and respect between equals. Or to put it another way, she’d begun taking on the big subjects at the heart of countless lives and also at the heart of romance fiction.It was the experience of a lifetime, culminating in 2009 – which was when The Edge of Impropriety won Romance Writers of America’s RITA Award for Best Historical Romance. And also when Pam realized that she’d said all that she had to say, at least in novel form. But happily, the books remain, while these days Pam works alongside Michael, her retired bookseller husband, at their copyediting business, P&amp;M Editorial Services. P&amp;M love editing romance (check out their website at pmeditorial.com) and recently they've begun lovingly reissuing selected, revised, and expanded versions of Pam’s romance fiction. You can write to Pam at pam@pamrosenthal.comVisit Pam on the web at pamrosenthal.com, on Twitter @pamrosenthal, and on Facebook Find out about P&amp;M Editorial Services at pmeditorial.comOr check out Pam’s erotica-writing alter ego Molly Weatherfield, at mollyweatherfield.com“Thank you for giving me so much to think about. Thank you for challenging me and for moving me. Thank you for having the courage to break so many conventions, to write something so complex and unique…” – DearAuthor.com, about The Slightest Provocation ...more