Romance Author
When I first set out to write a novel I don't think I was aware of the amount of research that would go into planning and making sure I get things right. I have so many moving pieces to my story, military, disabled characters, a setting that I'd neve ...
As I've explained before, I started writing Scott and Tori's love story with my husband. We would have ideas for scenes in our head, and we'd send them back and forth to each other, I'd rewrite them completely in my voice. I have several scenes th ...
It's a very scary process hitting that send button on queries. I'm opening myself up to rejection, and I know this as I send my precious darling out into the unknown. Most authors that have gone on to become bestsellers have been rejected. I've re ...
Day twenty one of #IGWRITERSOCT is "Plot twist." I love it when a movie or book smacks me in the face with a mind bending twist ending. So, here are my top five favorite movies with twist endings. It goes without saying there WILL be spoilers a ...
When I first got involved in the writing community I started hearing the word pantser thrown around a lot. I pretty much figured out right away that it meant writing by flying by the seat of your pants. I realized also that is exactly what I am. W ...
Day nine for IGWriters October was "Adventures in Writing." On one of my writing forums I recently saw the question asked "Have you ever visited any of the towns/locations that you write about." Most were divided on this. Many authors make up i ...
I decided to take part this month in #IGWritersOct, a little social media fun on Instagram sparked by Cheyanne Young, a YA author. I missed the first few days of this but decided to go ahead and give this a go, starting with Day 8: BRAINStorming. ...
Just finished reading Aly Martinez series "On The Ropes." I have to say that these were all fantastic reads. Aly is an excellent writer. Her dialogue is great, her sex scenes are HOT, and she creates characters that I love. Alpha males with hearts ...
When I first started seeking out some beta readers for my manuscript that I'm working on, I warned them that my stories do have explicit sex in them. I knew these women were into the wounded hero genre, but my sex scenes could possibly be a stretch f ...
As I started looking into various agents I came to the realization that my word count on my first novel was extremely high. I know within the romance genre, most books end up somewhere between 70K-100K words. My first draft was 117,000 words. B ...