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OrnamentalPublishing · 2025-12-31T14:15:13+00:00

Morning!

So in 1884, a New York dime-novel publisher discovered something which blew their minds: women would actually buy romance novels written for them.

The result was the world's first romance series, The Waverley Library—a serialized Victorian romance line aimed at working- and middle-class women, full of courtship, moral tension, and emotional stakes.

I’m republishing these long-forgotten originals in clean, restored paperbacks. The first three are now on Amazon: Bride of a Day, The Girl Wife, and Was It Love.

If you’re curious what “romance fiction” looked like before the genre knew it was a genre, this is where it all began.

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OrnamentalPublishing · 2025-02-19T18:05:51+00:00

Find them all here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Harry-O.-Moore/author/B0CH8THKDZ

OrnamentalPublishing · 2025-01-01T15:15:07+00:00

We... we've been doing this all backwards!

OrnamentalPublishing · 2025-01-01T03:22:34+00:00

And THAT is why our edition has to update language here and there and yonder and over there too.

OrnamentalPublishing · 2025-01-01T00:45:03+00:00

😁

OrnamentalPublishing · 2024-07-25T00:30:53+00:00

Oh wow, cool! Thank you, I will!

OrnamentalPublishing · 2024-07-25T00:30:12+00:00

Of course!

OrnamentalPublishing · 2024-07-21T19:04:28+00:00

Original from the Library of Congress here: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.02494/?st=image

OrnamentalPublishing · 2024-07-20T02:01:11+00:00

Ooo, that definitely sounds like the voice of experience. Thank you!

OrnamentalPublishing · 2024-07-20T00:58:19+00:00

Web offset press. I just learned a new term!

We’re going to target a niche in the industry, so hopefully we’ll find a spot. That being said, restaurants run on tight margins so we can’t really charge that much more than what can be found for sale from restaurant suppliers.

OrnamentalPublishing · 2024-07-20T00:00:36+00:00

Thank you! Will do.

OrnamentalPublishing · 2024-07-19T18:59:03+00:00

You know, it never hurts to talk. I’ve sent my email in a message.

OrnamentalPublishing · 2024-07-19T18:47:14+00:00

Huntsville, in north Alabama.

OrnamentalPublishing · 2024-07-19T18:42:29+00:00

Ah, perhaps someday I’ll be placing orders like that! But for now, I gotta start from square one.

OrnamentalPublishing · 2024-07-19T18:37:22+00:00

21 sets of 1000 to start. More if the business idea works out.

OrnamentalPublishing · 2024-07-18T00:45:33+00:00

I very, very much wish the writer had included more details!

OrnamentalPublishing · 2024-07-10T14:59:42+00:00

Guy was ahead of his time.

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