This is the story of a guy who fits the classic Regency hero mold, and who could have had a classic Regency romance — if only real life worked like romance novels. But it doesn’t. In real life, even the smartest, best-intentioned people make stupid, life-altering mistakes. And in real life, some promises are better [...]
Categories: History geeking, The Romance Genre
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So if you got here from the Nine Naughty Novelists blog, it means you’re looking for the rest of Chapter One – and, by the way thanks! Welcome to my rarely updated blog! If Chapter One hooks you, and you want to purchase the novella, you’ll find it here: http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/kiss-and-kin. Kiss and Kin: A Sexy [...]
Categories: The Romance Genre, Writing
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Tags: Excerpt Thursday
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Holy crap, where did the month go? Okay, we’re trying to hit 40 authors for the August EM. My contribution this month has nothing to do with my long-standing (and still incomplete) WIP – and, sorry, no Nick and TJ yet. I swear, I have a plot for them cooking. But it needs to simmer [...]
Categories: The Romance Genre, Writing
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Robie’s novella, The Man of Her Dreams, is available from Samhain in e-format right now; it will be part of the print anthology, Shifting Dreams, in Spring of next year. Robie was nice enough to sit down and tell me a little about The Man of Her Dreams; to get to know Robie better, and [...]
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On Saturday the 18th, my antho-mate, Vivi Andrews, won the Romance Writers of America’s 2009 Golden Heart for Best Contemporary Single Title Manuscript for her book Easy Money. Huge congratulations to Vivi, who sat down with me for this interview before her exciting win. (You can read about all the 2009 Rita and Golden [...]
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It’s another Excerpt Monday, where you get a chance to sample stories from a diverse group of talented romance writers – it’s a great way to find new authors and sample subgenres you might never have read before. Following the list of Excerpt Monday participants, you’ll find my own sample, from my (still not quite [...]
Categories: The Romance Genre, Writing
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXKbdilXh-A] If you’ve thought about making a book trailer but found the idea too intimidating, let me tell you – if I can do it, so can you. I got the images from Dreamstime, which offers royalty-free stock photography. You pay for downloads, but you can get some photos very inexpensively. You buy pre-paid packages [...]
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Actually, I don’t want my mother to look. She’d die if she saw this cover, and she’d die all over again if she read the sex scenes, so let’s just leave Mom out of the whole thing. But other than that – CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? I have a book! Kiss and Kin is an [...]
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Excerpt Monday was so heavily attended that Bria and Mel decided to get it organized. So they made a blog and spent a lot of time and effort to make it look good (and succeeded!) From the EM home page you can get to the blogs of all the writers participating this month. At the [...]
Categories: The Romance Genre, Writing
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Some romance writer hopefuls don’t like doing contests. I’m rather hooked on them. For those of you who don’t write romance: most chapters of Romance Writers of America hold contests for published and unpublished authors. These contests are judged in two rounds: the first round by chapter members, usually published authors, and the final round [...]
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