Read A Room in Blake’s Folly the new # HistoricalRomance by J Arlene Culiner @JArleneCuliner #RLFblog #ContemporaryRomance

When a forgotten romance comes to light after one hundred and thirty years, it has the power to influence the inhabitants of a former silver boomtown. Do you know what your own grandparents got up to in their heyday?

J Arlene welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about A Room in Blake’s Folly.

A Room in Blake’s Folly by J Arlene Culiner

Genre Historical to Contemporary Romance

Book heat level (based on movie ratings): Sensual

If only the walls could speak…

In one hundred and fifty years, Blake’s Folly, a silver boomtown notorious for its brothels, scarlet ladies, silver barons, speakeasies, and divorce ranches, has become a semi-ghost town. Although the old Mizpah Saloon is still in business, its upper floor is sheathed in dust. But in a room at a long corridor’s end, an adventurer, a beautiful dance girl, and a rejected wife were once caught in a love triangle, and their secret has touched three generations.

Why did you write this book?

Because I’m an historian as well as a storyteller, I wanted to chart the romance possibilities of a former silver boomtown that has become a semi-ghost town. I also liked the idea of transporting readers away from their everyday reality and carrying them to a place they don’t know. Of course, in all of my books, I also want to underline how necessary it is to stay curious about the past.

What is your favorite genre to read?

I read everything from creative non-fiction to romance and history. Reading is such a pleasure and people are writing marvelous things in all genres, so why would I restrict myself to one?

Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?

Reasonable (yet not humorless) Flora Post from Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.

What are you working on at the moment?

I’m about to start a memoir of a small village in France. At the moment, I have my nose stuck in archives.

What books will we see from you in coming months?

Two other re-releases that have Blake’s Folly as their setting: Desert Rose and All About Charming Alice.

Where to buy A Room in Blake’s Folly

Publisher https://shop.aer.io/TheWildRosePress/p/A_Room_in_Blakes_Folly/9781509242030-11180
Amazon https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B09THMZBL7
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Writer, photographer, social critical artist, musician, and occasional actress, J Arlene Culiner, was born in New York and raised in Toronto. She has crossed much of Europe on foot, has lived in a Hungarian mud house, a Bavarian castle, a Turkish cave-dwelling, on a Dutch canal, and in a haunted house on the English moors. She now resides in a 400-year-old former inn in a French village of no interest and, much to local dismay, protects all creatures, especially spiders and snakes. She particularly enjoys incorporating into short stories, mysteries, narrative non-fiction, and romances, her experiences in out-of-the-way communities, and her conversations with strange characters.
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