The Historical Romance Sampler
Oct 5, 2026 · 23 min · 9 segments
It is Banned Books Week here in the USA, so author Kit Caelsto joins me to talk about writing romance in a climate of censorship. Kit shares about their 20-year career as a romance author and how a…
So in the summer, our governor signed a bill that puts very onerous restrictions on adult-focused websites.
They aim it at commercial adult websites where, like, at least a third of the con- content is sexually explicit or designed for gratification, and that is a pretty broad definition.
Obviously, as an author and as a writer, I like to think of my stories as more than that.
I mean, no shade, I have written erotica, but you know, there, there's a plot there.
I was first published in 2002, and I published pretty consistently up until about 2015, 2016.
And so with this bill, which we can discuss in more detail, although I'll say I'm not a lawyer, this is just what I've read in the news media, it puts some pretty strict requirements on these websites and some pretty scary fines, like up to $10,000 per day if the Secretary of State decides that you're violating this law.
And so yeah, I just finished grad school, so I've kind of come in and out of another one of those periods of burnout with the erotic side of the romance.
And I'm thinking about, you know, kind of getting rejuvenated and getting back into some of those series, and now I'm just thinking, "Is this where I really wanna go right now?"
So in the summer, our governor signed a bill that puts very onerous restrictions on adult-focused websites.
They aim it at commercial adult websites where, like, at least a third of the con- content is sexually explicit or designed for gratification, and that is a pretty broad definition.
Obviously, as an author and as a writer, I like to think of my stories as more than that.
I mean, no shade, I have written erotica, but you know, there, there's a plot there.
I was first published in 2002, and I published pretty consistently up until about 2015, 2016.
And so with this bill, which we can discuss in more detail, although I'll say I'm not a lawyer, this is just what I've read in the news media, it puts some pretty strict requirements on these websites and some pretty scary fines, like up to $10,000 per day if the Secretary of State decides that you're violating this law.
And so yeah, I just finished grad school, so I've kind of come in and out of another one of those periods of burnout with the erotic side of the romance.
And I'm thinking about, you know, kind of getting rejuvenated and getting back into some of those series, and now I'm just thinking, "Is this where I really wanna go right now?"
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