I’m sure you’ve heard these ideas before. Write what’s in your heart. Write the book you want to read. Write the story that seems the most frightening, the most impossible, the most challenging. The story that feels like it needs…
Every book has a story behind it. Or several. Because all books are born of an author’s life and experience and whatever path he or she walked for that book to be published. Sometimes those paths can be smooth, but…
For the past few years I’ve helped judge contests for new romance writers. And each year, I see so many similarities in the entries. So I thought I’d jot down a few tips for new romance writers, based on what…
I love romance novels with really big emotions. When I first created an author website and was searching for a tagline, I played around with big stories with big emotions as a description for my writing. And even though I…
I write in fits and starts. Everything will flow for a day or two and then boom. I’m stuck. Staring at the page, with no idea what to write next. At times I am unable to string any coherent sentences…
I’m suffering from the post-book-release blues. I don’t know if you’re familiar with them. Here’s how they work, for me at least. I write my book. Then I work as hard as I can to revise and edit it. I…
I love reading western romance. Put a hero in faded jeans a flannel shirt and a cowboy hat on a book cover and I will very likely buy that book! But sometimes I end up feeling like the cowboy on…
