Valentine’s Day has come and gone. Did you watch a romantic movie with your sweetheart in the dark? I found a snarky article online by Kim Morgan that made me laugh—Loathe,Actually, “ten beloved romantic movies that are annoying, cloying and unintentionally dysfunctional.” Here’s the list:
1. Pretty Woman
2. Sleepless in Seattle
3. The Way We Were
4. [...]

Starting your book can be hard, no doubt about it! You want to find the perfect first line (aka the hook). You must draw the reader in and give them an idea of the setting, time period, and characters personalities. Granted the first page doesn’t have to introduce both your h/h but you must [...]

Today is the day, the day when we let people know that we love them. It seems rather silly, doesn’t it? Why not let them know every day?
I’ll find any good excuse to allow myself to eat some chocolate though, so I am not going to complain about Valentine’s Day, even if I do [...]

I’ve been working on edits for a book I’ve written and re-writtten, and in one of my rewrites, I changed the date.  It was only by about eighty years (there was a certain event that I wanted to take a certain part in my WIP.) Little did I realize that changing my dates by 80 years [...]

First, I’d like to send a warm welcome out to all the new Ladies here at Romantic Inks.  This is a fun group to be a part of.  Next, I’d like to wish everyone a happy Valentine’s Day.  I’m not sure how many of you celebrate this occasion.  It’s one of those odd holidays that [...]

It’s my debut! So does that mean that I’m a debutante? I lack some social graces, but I’m sure you could take me out to eat and most of my food would end up in my mouth. Wikipedia says that a debutante is French for a female beginner. Well, that I am, and in more [...]

I got some good news last week. My book Waking Beauty placed first in the East Texas RWA chapter’s Southern Heat Contest. I should amend that. The first pages of it did. The judging editor now gets to read the whole thing. There are specific guidelines for me to follow for submission. I am gritting [...]

Right now I’m working on a website and it’s giving me fits! Yes, I know I could be writing, but hey, this is my day job. The problem is certain elements in the website just don’t want to fit correctly no matter how I wiggle, tweak or bribe them, they just refuse to work.
Then I [...]

Characters have come up once or twice lately and I’m going to give my take on them. Excited yet?
I know a lot of people have different methods for developing their characters. Some do character interviews, or indepth character sheets. Me, I have a name, and probably a physical appearance and let it rip.
I develop characters [...]

Happy Wednesday everybody!!
 I’ve been doing A LOT of research lately.  One a book that I’ve been working on for about 2 years needs a lot of “checking” on facts, I’ve started a historical fiction book, and I’m going to be teaching a class on the Tudors later this month, so I have to make sure [...]