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On Completing Mine Is The Night
“Dancing In Party Club” by photostock / FreeDigitalPhotos.net At approximately 2:30 AM I typed the final word on my WIP, Mine Is The Night! I’ve been writing off and on since 2010, but this is the...
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Writing Lessons Learned from The Great British Sewing Bee
The Great British Sewing Bee (courtesy of BBC2) I’ve been sewing since I was a teenager convinced she was going to be the next Donna Karan or Coco Chanel, and though I have a love/hate relationship...
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My 5 Tips for Writing the Unusual Historical without Scaring People
“Robber Hiding Under A White Wall” by chanpipat / FreeDigitalPhotos.net The blogosphere buzz is about Historical Romance. Most of the perspective–including my own–is from a reader standpoint, but since...
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The Three Types of Conflict in Romance Novels
As I brainstormed the revision for Yours Very Truly, I happened to stumble upon this bit of writing advice I saved to my hard drive two years ago. I had an “Ah ha!” moment, because I realized this was...
View ArticleBlog Hop: My Writing Process
Thank you Ellie Ash for inviting me on this blog hop! What am I working on? The sequel to An Ideal Duchess, titled A Duchess’s Heart, and a variety of other things. I’ve found that my anxiety over...
View ArticleOn My Romance Writing Philsophy
Jeannie Lin’s latest post on her core themes spoke to me on many levels. I’m writing my vicar hero/bad girl story and as I jumped into my hero’s POV, he turned out to be a little darker than expected....
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Sex and the Single (Romance) Hero
Male body builder, Maurice Deriaz, c. 1906 – Wellcome Library As I have been busy writing various projects, I began to notice a pattern in my heroes. As first, I was like…nah…he’s…wait…no, he’s…him...
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My 5 Tips for Writing the Unusual Historical without Scaring People
“Robber Hiding Under A White Wall” by chanpipat / FreeDigitalPhotos.net The blogosphere buzz is about Historical Romance. Most of the perspective–including my own–is from a reader standpoint, but since...
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The Three Types of Conflict in Romance Novels
As I brainstormed the revision for Yours Very Truly, I happened to stumble upon this bit of writing advice I saved to my hard drive two years ago. I had an “Ah ha!” moment, because I realized this was...
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Book Publishing Newbie: First Pass Pages for Fall of Poppies
A week ago I received the first pass pages for my contribution to the Fall of Poppies anthology. Cue excitement! Until I realized I had no clue what I was supposed to be doing with this document. The...
View ArticlePistols and Petticoats: How Women Write the West
The myth of the frontier or the border, as perpetrated by male writers, has centered on the loner, the “fugitive from civilization,” (Smith 54) whose role is to clear the path for settlers and be the...
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Books, Prose, and Conversation
Archibald J. Motley Jr., Black Belt, 1934. Oil on canvas, 33 x 40.5 inches (83.8 x 102.9 cm). Collection of the Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia. © Valerie Gerrard Browne. One thing I’ve...
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