Half a century ago, Mary Jackson was living and working in London during World War II. As bombs pounded the city, destroying everything in their path, men and women were afraid to make promises they couldn’t keep. People lived only in the moment, because the future was so uncertain. But not so Mary and her … Read more
Wealthy software developer Gray Reiss uses a simple marketing strategy for promoting his products—a 30-day, money-back guarantee. He offers the same deal to pretty college professor, Astra Maris, but this time the product is … himself! He wants Maris to try dating him for a month, and if she’s not happy… just walk away. Maris … Read more
Jeb gestures at the dance hall. “Like those other gals in there, you probably just need a good kissing.”
“You wouldn’t dare!” Alice gasps.
Jeb didn’t know what devil drove him. The next instant, he has Alice in his arms, tasting lips maddeningly soft and sweet.
The shock of Jeb’s hard mouth on hers rockets through Alice. Finally she recovers enough to push him away.
“You… you untutored… brute!”
Yet, later, as other men flock around her, she’s only aware of Jeb watching her from beyond the open door. Her body heats.
Journalist Ashley Arnold vows she’ll never trust another man again. Then handsome forest fire-fighter David Becker bursts into her life, and her bitterness begins to change to desire. She fights her attraction to this big, powerful man, but when she takes a writing assignment in Montana at the firefighter training center where David is based, … Read more
Lately I’ve been researching this question, because the answers seem to be all over the map. You might not think this is important either to readers or the authors, but it happens to be very important to both. Here’s why. Let’s say you have a soldier character in your romance, and like many a … Read more
Romances dominate fiction by sheer numbers, but because of the history of romance as a despised genre, we sometimes don’t think about influential we are. Publishing has changed dramatically in the last few years, and one major impetus has been ebook erotica. The advent of ebooks very quickly opened the opportunity for women to read … Read more
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A friend of mine wanted me to accompany her and her boyfriend on leave from the Coast Guard for a day of sightseeing in New York City. The boyfriend brought a male buddy along. From the get-go it was a disaster. The friend was so nervous being from the south and I was supposedly a … Read more
The Good and The Bad – They’re all Real Life Romance Stories! From the Heart Let’s face it. MyRomanceStory.com is all about L-O-V-E. Our stories are passionate, emotional, and dramatic, but we knew our readers had a few moments in their lives that qualify as incredibly romantic, too. We asked them to share them with … Read more
The historic Washington, DC, one-day shutdown of its entire subway system has me thinking that this is a perfect opportunity for a reality-based “meet cute” that sparks a romance novel. I don’t recall any such romances coming out of the historic New York City transit strike in 1980. That’s probably because everybody living in glamorous … Read more
