I’m struggling with one of my heroes. While I know my heroine I don’t really know my hero. In fact, apart from a few vital points in his background I don’t know him at all yet. I haven’t started writing this story yet of course, but I will shortly begin working on the plot, and [...]

Feedback.  
Call me slow, but in the last few months I have discovered just how important feedback really is.  Very.
I’ve recently had a fire lit under my butt and have worked furiously on my characters’ profiles and GMC.  And boy, I am really getting to know them intimately.  And it feels good!  I think this was my problem in my old WIP [...]

12 authors. The most unique aspect about this top twelve group is that they are all on their way to being published. They are also on my watch list. Some of them don’t even know it. I want to see their name’s at my local B&N.
It is extremely hard as an aspiring writer and romance reader [...]

Darcy says: “I do not know these words.”
Lacey explains: “No.Internet…In.My.Condo.”
/Jacqueline scratches her head. “Then how do you live? I would die!”
/Lacey clasps her chest in pain. “Won’t be long now…”
It’s not quite as bad as it sounds. No internet means no procrastinating. Mostly. It means more painting (until my neck starts protesting) and more writing [...]

Wishing you all and your families a Happy Easter! Hope you’re all are having a good weekend.
For me, many positive things came out of doing NaNo last November. The first positive thing? I can finish a book, a crappy, horrific, first draft though it may be, but I did [...]

If you’re a regular here you know that I recently tied myself to my desk and wrote like the wind to meet the Royal Ascot deadline.
What I didn’t know is that there are things that are way harder than plotting, characters that won’t go away and even writers block. Writing a synopsis!
It should be easy [...]

Back in November of last year, while I participated in NaNo ‘06, I made a spreadsheet to track my word count. I discovered my best time to write was in the early morning as opposed to the early evening or even late at night. I was writing about 2000 words on most mornings vs. 250 [...]

Otherwise fondly thought of as ‘So I wrote the damn book, now what?’
Did you think that typing the words The End also put an end to the work of writing a book? Ha! You were so wrong! This is when the real work starts. Now comes the… *drumroll* editing, the fine-tuning, the improvements, the proofreading!

Sounds [...]

Congratulations Stephanie! Your name was drawn as the winner of The Leopard Prince.
Please contact me at contact(at)romanticinks.com with your name and snail mail and I’ll forward your information to Elizabeth.

Now, you may think from my previous blog posts that being a professional writer is a life full of rejections from total strangers, loneliness, and way too much caffeine, and in fact you�d be right. But there are advantages, too.
For instance, working in your pajamas.
This is an advantage that totally rocks. In what other profession [...]