Can You Write 50,000 Words in a Month? That's right, fifty thousand words of a novel, all to be written in the month of June. The Kiwi Writers, a New Zealand writing gro…
Unholy Confusion I just got a review copy of Stacia Kane’s Unholy Ghosts and started to check it out, and then said, Huh? Haven’t I already rea…
Is It Love? Is it love if the guy doesn't say he loves you? When writing that sentence, I began to realize that I had used the word "guy" b…
Blushing Brides Writing Contest A Salute to Blushing Brides, Screaming Bridezillas and Happily Ever After Couples! Submit your TRUE stories of courtship, weddi…
Why We Read New Romances Recently I pared down my collection of romances by one author, Lucy Walker. (Doesn’t sound like much, but that was 27 paperbacks…
Multi-Platform Publishing Workshop at the RT BookLovers Convention in Columbus, OH. Join us on Thursday, April 29th at 10 AM for the Multi-Platform Publishing Workshop at the RT BookLovers Convention in Columbus, O…
Distracted By Sexy Men This post has been hijacked. I planned to talk about mad scenes and the 19th century belief that women were hysterical, unreasonin…
An Embarrassment of Men It should be an embarrassment of riches. A typical romance heroine—a virginal young woman with a big problem that keeps her from…
The Romance Reader’s Hot Cowboy Doctor A study of Harlequin romance titles from 1949-2009 has been published in the Journal of Social, Evolutionary and Cultural Psycholo…
Fireworks Over Toccoa Sweepstakes We know you love romance fiction and the chance to win romantic prizes, so we wanted to tell you about a new sweepstakes sponsored…