USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR
ROBINSCHONE
Women’s Sexuality, Gothic History & Romantic Suspense
“Schone first pushed the erotic envelope in ... “Awaken My Love,” which was based on the unique — and some say wacky — premise of time travel via masturbatory orgasm.”
—“Too Darn Hot,” Salon
Oh, yeah? Who says you can’t time travel via orgasm? And have a whopping good time learning to live sans Starbucks and Netflix?
“Awaken, My Love provides a refreshingly funny commentary on the time-travel genre. Elaine’s trials regarding chamber pots, makeshift maxi pads, and social sensibilities like unshaven legs underline such astounding oversights in other books that readers may never again be able to accept a sloppily written, unrealistic experience of waking up in another century.” -The Romance Reader
A LETTER FROM ROBIN ...
Awaken, My Love is my first romance novel, and will forever hold a special place in my heart. Because writing Awaken, My Love started a lifelong love affaire.
I have always loved history … dinosaurs, anyone? … and devoured Georgette Heyer at the tender age of twelve. But while I had studied old world history— i.e., Sumer, Ancient Egypt, Crete, etc.—and read Regency romances for entertainment, I really didn’t know anything about modern history. Dates, sure: George III (Mad King George) died in 1820; Victoria became queen in 1837; crinolines came into fashion in 1857; the first Boer War started in 1880. But still the question remained: how did our 19th century ancestors live day to day? What would we find if we were catapulted back into time?
I literally couldn’t write—an author should at the very least know as much as their heroine/hero—until I had the answers. I diligently plowed through the Regency era, fumbled through the 1840s … and fell head over heels. Thus began my lifelong love affair with the Victorian era.
I now think of Awaken, My Love as a travelogue. What would you need if—like Elaine, my American heroine—you woke up in 1883 England? That’s a long trip, so undoubtedly your answer is: bathroom. And what would you need in said bathroom? Toothbrush. Toothpaste. A flushable toilet. A bath. Hot and cold running water. Toilet paper. We take these things for granted now. But in what year were these conveniences available? And how did our ancestors cope without? These are just a few of the things that Elaine—also a modern woman—and I discovered when we embarked on our journey into the 19th century.
I confess, I also greatly enjoyed studying the Kama Sutra and Tantric sex. Cause, you know, it’s important I know everything my hero knows. Right?
Awaken, My Love is fun, sexy and contains a mystery I dare you to solve. I hope you enjoy reading my very first romance as much as I enjoyed writing it! And I hope that you, too, will walk away with a little more knowledge of Victorian England. Because it really is an amazing time.
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