Setting: Landscape or Portrait? by Karen Hudgins
Settings are an integral part of a good read. When beginning a new project, authors juggle key elements: character, plot, and setting...
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Collaborative Writing or Sisterhood Ain’t for Sissies by Hailey Lind
What comes to mind when you imagine an author at work? A solitary wordsmith tapping away on a clackety old typewriter in a lonely garret.... MORE INFO
A Fact Should Be Loved... by Judith Glad
I love to research. I like it so much that sometimes I forget the most important thing about writing fiction--that I’m doing it for a specific... MORE INFO
ARC’s Who’s Profitting From the Sale of Them?
by Inez Daylong
At any given time there is in excess of 900 ARC’s (Advanced Readers Copies) of books for sale on Ebay.... MORE INFO
Creating Fight Scenes and Battles by Marilynn Byerly
Love and battle scenes have far more in common than most of us realize. Both are the hardest moments in our novels to create convincingly... MORE INFO
CULTURE AND ETHNICITY-- THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN ROMANCE NOVEL by Gwynne Forster
Reviewers have occasionally criticized African-American romance novel as lacking in ethnicity (as defined, presumably, by TV evening... MORE INFO
EDINBURG Have you noticed the ever increasing numbers of paranormals on the shelves these days? Like it or not vampires, werewolves, mages, druids, witches and... MORE INFO
Fifteen Hooks To Put Zing In Your Story and Sell Your Manuscript
by: Dianne Castell (aka: Dianne Kruetzkamp)
New authors are told to write the book of your heart, and your work will sell. Write fresh, compelling, fast-moving, stories that excite you... MORE INFO
Get That Interview
by Louise B. Snead
As the time grows near for Mother's Day and Father's Day, we can't help but remember certain family experiences that made wonderful... MORE INFO
Hawaii as a Love Story
by Pam Chun
Crystalline waves rolled rhythmically up the sandy shore, grain by grain. In the distance, coconut fronds rustled ancient chants of love... MORE INFO
How to Organize a Book Club for Readers of Romance
More than 24 million women read romance novels (nearly half of all paperbacks sold in America) with sales of 5 million dollars per year... MORE INFO
Margaret Mitchell's Weak MomentWEAK MOMENT by Alinka Zyrmont
The secret of Margaret Mitchell's success as the author of Gone With the Wind seems to be the excessive amount of research she did about the South... MORE INFO
SETTING MID TONE: Or How to Draw a Reader into the Heart of Your Story
Every story, no matter which genre, needs a physical background to bring the events alive in the reader’s imagination... MORE INFO
Six months Later -- A Vision of Chaos, Determination, Courage, and Generosity.
For those of you who didn't know, I am a Registered Nurse with a specialty in Pediatrics. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans...
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This is ‘NOT’ in the Brochure
by Linda Windsor
Sure, the balmy weather was perfect and lazy palms dotted the white sand beach where crystal blue waters lapped at its edge... MORE INFO
What I Know So Far by Deirdre Savoy
Every time I speak somewhere, give an interview, or run across some one who feels there’s a book inside them burning to get out... MORE INFO
