There are so many of them. Some are so similar it’s hard to know the difference. Then there are sub-genres… It’s hard to keep track of them all. Also, how do you know which one you’d like to write? Or which one to read?
Personally I’m currently writing Historical, set in Regency. I chose this genre [...]

Hi everyone! Before I get started, let me say a big thank you to Romantically Inclined for inviting me to be guest blogger this week! I’m really looking forward to a terrific seven days of blogging, comments, and interaction with you all…and hopefully I’ll be able to offer a little bit of salient advice about [...]

Hello ladies!
Well I was sharing a bit of my story to my critique group when it hit me…the tears. Granted, it was at two very dramatic and romantic parts of the book. The heroine saves the hero when he is injured, and the heroine tells the hero she loves him for the first time when [...]

Happy Birthday Mary!!
Hope you have a wonderful day.

I know it’s early but wanted to make sure you got it.

As many of you know I’m leaving tomorrow to go see my grandma for her 70th birthday and won’t be returning until March 1st. I hope all goes well while I’m gone. I’m taking the laptop but [...]

One of my most important New Year’s resolutions is to finish my current story. Out of all of us here I’m (embarrassed to say) the only one that has not completed a project. Throughout this blog I’ve mentioned the reasons why, everything from fear to not finding the right “schedule” to write. In order to [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day!
As we muddle through this day dedicated to love and all sorts of mushy things that it involves, luck would have it I am approaching a crucial turning point in my work in progress : The LOVE SCENE.
I have always dreaded writing these; somehow, it just seems too personal. What if it’s too [...]

Happy Valentine’s Everyone!!
I know this post is early but I didn’t want to step on tomorrows blog.

In any case, I hope everyone here has a wonderful Valentine’s, with happy writings hehe. Besides, what better day to write a beautiful love scene then one of the most romantic days of the year.

I would like to take a moment and say thank you to Elizabeth Boyle for posting this week. It has been wonderful and there is so much to learn from your topics. Once again thank you for dropping by and giving us such wonderful advice.

Winner:

AndreaW, Congrats!

If you would please send an email to [...]

I always wanted to be a writer, and a romance writer after I read my first Valerie Sherwood novel in the 70s. I suppose that dates me completely, but I devoured romance novels as a teenager–Valerie, Bertrice Small, Kathleen Woodiwiss.
I went to college and got a double BA in English Lit and History. The perfect [...]

There is one guaranteed thing that will happen every time you are writing a book: You’ll get an idea for another book. A shiny bright, irresistible idea for a story that is so far and beyond better than the one you are writing, you just know you should set aside the book you are writing [...]