
- Apr 24, 2019
Short Stories vs. Longer Works
Anonymous asked: I wrote a short story a couple of weeks ago that I think really stands well on its own, but I normally stick with...
- Mar 22, 2019
How Line Editing Can Make Your Story Stronger – From a Line Editor
Hi everyone! If you follow this blog and read our book reviews then you know a lot of times one of our big complaints is the story could...
- Dec 23, 2018
Clean/Sweet Romance
standard-ang3l asked: Mary Jo Putney for the ask thing! Mary Jo Putney: Position on the “calling romances without sex ‘clean’ or ‘sweet’...
- Dec 20, 2018
Terrible Tropes
vampirechilled asked: Alyssa Cole and Abigail Barnette for the ask meme Ohhhh going for the fun ones… okay. I can do this. Alyssa Cole:...
- Sep 26, 2018
On Rape Culture
Pssst… Fiction writers of the world, let me let you in on a little dose of truth. Your female characters don’t owe your male characters...
- Aug 21, 2018
Advice for Friends Who Want to Write
ragamuffin--child asked: Is there a polite way to tell a friend (who does have a work published) that her dreams of becoming a full time...
- Jun 15, 2018
On Editing
Anonymous asked: So I'm noticing what seems to be a pretty chronic theme of the paucity of editing in the self-published romance writing...
- Mar 16, 2018
Code-Switching
randomnoteforfuturereference asked: So let's say you are writing a story where someone code-switches from English to a "right-to-left"...
- Feb 16, 2018
Is Romance “just fantasy?”
I was having a conversation the other day. Other Person: Isn’t Romance, you know, all fantasy and stuff? Me: The only fantastical thing...
- Sep 5, 2016
Don't Disparage Fandom
There are all sorts of essays and articles about how fanfiction allows authors to grow as writers while still having the comforts and...
- Jul 26, 2016
Words to Watch Out For
We’ve just finished our third… or is it fourth draft. During this readthrough, we discovered multiple words we tend to overuse - and, to...