This is cross-posted at The Season. A couple of months ago, I wrote about how I don’t always connect with kickass heroines. The women I empathize with the most in novels are inevitably ones more like me—people whose main fights have been to overcome internal barriers, like fear and low confidence after spending too much… Continue reading Love for the downtrodden hero
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Step into another world
This is cross-posted on The Season blog. Every keen reader knows how it feels to lose themselves in a completely different world—whether that’s JRR Tolkien’s hobbity Middle-earth, or the snappy, witty Regency England of Julia Quinn’s imagination. Isn’t escape one of the biggest reasons genre fiction is so popular? It transports us to another time… Continue reading Step into another world
Bringing characters to life
This is cross-posted at The Season. One of the biggest reasons I’m a romance fan is that the genre thrives on strong characters. A good romance novel will put human behavior under a microscope and expose all the nuance of our emotions. Reading a novel can make me feel like I’ve met new friends, or… Continue reading Bringing characters to life
Why you should never screw over a romance heroine
This is cross-posted at The Season Ever had a husband or lover who screwed you over so badly you invented new forms of revenge? Did you follow through on them? I’ve been reading all the RITA-nominated contemporary single title romance novels (seriously, there has to be a shorter way of saying that), and two of… Continue reading Why you should never screw over a romance heroine
Attack of the overbearing body parts
For some reason, my first drafts tend to be dominated by one body part, and it’s probably not one you’d expect, considering I’m a romance writer. I hadn’t realized I had a bullying body part until one of my beta readers returned her incredibly helpful comments on the novel manuscript I wrote last year. Throughout… Continue reading Attack of the overbearing body parts