Good news comes in threes! (Well, deaths of famous people come in threes, so it stands to reason – sort of – that good news does, too). 1. I entered my manuscript in RWA’s Golden Heart competition today! Woo hoo for finishing a manuscript! 2. According to Publisher’s Weekly, people want to read funny contemporaries,… Continue reading Save the contemporary
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My husband and Susan Elizabeth Phillips, part one
If you had to give a man one romance novel to show why you love the genre, which one would it be? My husband is a PhD candidate studying American literature. He hates romance novels. Or, at least, he’s convinced he would if he ever read one. The other day he came up with a… Continue reading My husband and Susan Elizabeth Phillips, part one
I’m a winner!
I’ve been trying to finish up my manuscript for RWA’s Golden Heart Award, so apologies for leaving the blog so fallow. I had some great news a week ago – I was the Grand Prize winner of the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood’s blog! The fantastic Anne Marie Becker read my entry for the Golden Heart Award… Continue reading I’m a winner!
How agents think
A couple months ago, I wondered out loud what kinds of questions agents and editors ask themselves about your manuscript when they’re reading it for the first time. As if they’ve been pondering my post for several weeks,* three agents wrote blogs this week giving insight into how they think.
Getting an unbiased opinion
I mentioned earlier that I sent my first three chapters to some writerly friends. None of them write romance, only one of them reads romance, and one of them told me, “I have to be honest, I absolutely HATE romance novels!” I’m hoping that that’ll be a good thing. They’ll all help me make my… Continue reading Getting an unbiased opinion