{"id":6240,"date":"2011-03-22T09:19:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T13:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theseasonforromance.com\/wordpress\/?p=6240"},"modified":"2011-03-22T09:19:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T13:19:18","slug":"contemporaries-and-their-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/contemporaries-and-their-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporaries and their covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started reading romances, I started with contemporaries. When I started writing, I also started with contemporaries. 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