{"id":4277,"date":"2026-04-05T21:18:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianregency.com\/blog\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:18:56","slug":"christmas-regency-fiction-is-there-any-by-susan-karsten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/05\/christmas-regency-fiction-is-there-any-by-susan-karsten\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Regency fiction &#8211; Is there any? by Susan Karsten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, all!<\/p><div id=\"vanes-4211204295\" class=\"vanes-content vanes-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-right: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: 2px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/fireswordandsea.htm\" aria-label=\"Fire Sword &amp; Sea\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?fit=1706%2C2560&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fire Sword &amp; Sea\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?w=1706&ssl=1 1706w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/FireSwordSea_HC-scaled.jpg?w=1280&ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" width=\"569\" height=\"853\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When the topic of Christmas and other holidays in\u00a0regency genre books came up, I merely opened the hutch of my escritoire (regency for desk) and pulled out four collections (see below)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianregency.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/104_4707.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4337\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/christianregency.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/104_4707-300x130.jpg?resize=300%2C130\" alt=\"104_4707\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/104_4707.jpg?resize=300%2C130&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/104_4707.jpg?resize=1024%2C445&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/104_4707.jpg?resize=500%2C217&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/104_4707.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/104_4707.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are not CBA (inspirational) fiction, but rather ABA (general market, not inspirational, and probably a little racy).<\/p>\n<p>I hope our inspy Regency genre grows to the point where collections like the above will be highly sought-after and we will have a chance to have a chance for our faith-filled novella \u00a0to be published in such a collection.<\/p>\n<p>What do you like best about Christmas-set fiction?<\/p>\n<p>Please give an answer in a comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Susan Karsten<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"rop\"><small>Originally posted 2014-10-20 01:00:00. <\/small><\/p><div id=\"vanes-1722342082\" class=\"vanes-after-content vanes-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-top: 3px;margin-right: 3px;margin-bottom: 3px;margin-left: 3px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?fit=1080%2C1350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Listen to the Write of Passage Weekly Podcast\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?w=1080&ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=240%2C300&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=819%2C1024&ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/SubstackAd.png?resize=768%2C960&ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" width=\"540\" height=\"675\"   \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, all! When the topic of Christmas and other holidays in\u00a0regency genre books came up, I merely opened the hutch of my escritoire (regency for desk) and pulled out four collections (see below) These are not CBA (inspirational) fiction, but rather ABA (general market, not inspirational, and probably a little racy). I hope our inspy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,159,160,86,3,10,11,15],"tags":[484,485,483,482,177,209],"class_list":["post-4277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-christmas","category-christmas-holiday","category-female-authors-regency-period","category-history","category-holiday","category-seasons","category-writing","tag-christmas-fiction","tag-christmas-story-collection","tag-novellas","tag-regency-christmas","tag-regency-genre","tag-susan-karsten"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4338,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/4338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanessariley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}