Where love always wins
I read romance, not necessarily because I’m looking for a book boyfriend. What do I want in a story? I want to see two people fall in love. But I am searching for the hero who acts and talks like a man. Book Boyfriend Maybe I am looking for a book boyfriend, but I want …
As a writer of clean romance, I don’t write sex scenes, but the sexual tension the hero and the heroine has to be there. I’m writing about a man and a woman whose desires burn strong beneath the relationship conflict. The conflict has to be strong and believable. Fiction is all about suspension of belief. …
When I first learned about sweet romances, romances where there is no sex on the page and often times no sex between the hero and the heroine at all, not even implied, I wondered, how does the writer portray a sweet romance hero? He’s with a woman. He has urges. He has inclinations. How does …
When I first started writing romance, a thousand years ago, I had a discussion in one of my critique groups about writing the male character. It was important to us to portray a male character that looked, acted and sounded like a man. Romance Readers I you ask romance readers what qualities they like in …
Happy New Year, Everyone! I hope you are enjoying a wonderful holiday break and that Christmas was a day filled with love and laughter and times that you spent with family, friends and people you love or just a great day for a relaxing beach vacation. I still hold out hope that one day that …
Happy New Year, Everyone! I hope you are enjoying a wonderful holiday break and that Christmas was a day filled with love and laughter and times that you spent with family, friends and people you love or just a great day for a relaxing beach vacation. I still hold out hope that one day that …
Merry Christmas, Everyone! It’s almost Christmas. For those who celebrate, are you ready? I never feel ready. The year just seems to plod until Thanksgiving arrives, and then my days feel like a mad dash trying to finish the shopping, the wrapping, the mailing and the baking and still pack for our holiday celebration with …
The romance genres are multitudinous. When someone says romance novel, I’m sure everyone thinks something differently, but do any of you think of the Christmas romance genre? The other night my husband and I attended a party. I have a day job so when someone asks me what I do, the first thing I think …
I never thought I’d write a romance about a pregnant heroine, but I did! When Love Whispers, Book 2 of the Beaumont Brides Series, is twenty-one year old Willow Dockery’s story and her life is turned upside down when her pregnancy test shows the plus sign. Pregnant Heroine Why write about a pregnant heroine? What …
Do you look forward to the Black Friday sales as much as you do Thanksgiving? I’ve never been one to follow the sales, though I have friends who plan their entire Christmas shopping around this day including following the ads and comparison shopping so they know where to find the best deal. Maybe you do …