6 Things I wish I’d Known About Getting A Literary Agent When I First Started Writing Novels.
1. Agents are just as hard to land as publishers, if not harder.
You have to knock yourself out marketing your very best work, making yourself look wonderful, over and over again, in order to win the heart of an agent. It’s exhausting. They’re looking for a long term commitment and are harder to convince.
2. Agents [...]
The Perils Of Writing Erotic Romance.
Many erotic romance readers love the genre so much, they turn their hands to writing a novel and some writers are good enough to get published.
You’d think that would be the end of your troubles, getting published, wouldn’t you? You only have to read around a handful of how-to-write blogs and sites to figure out [...]
Do You Read Erotic Romances Just to Drool Over The Hunky Heroes?
Lynn Spencer over at the All About Romance blog raised an interesting point today in her post, “Placeholder Heroines,” as she frothed at the mouth over yet another article written by British journalist Tanya Gold for The Guardian, “Confessions of a secret Mills & Boon Junkie,” where she proposed that romance heroines were no more [...]
Read more »What Exactly IS Urban Fantasy and How Does it Fit the Romance Landscape?
Urban Fantasy has crept into our subconscious and our romance reading via the back door.
We started off loving paranormal romance and that is still a huge staple in our diet of romance novels. But many readers (and writers!) aren’t exactly sure what Urban Fantasy [...]
The So-Called "Dead" Historical Romance Market
I keep coming back to this question because I keeping getting conflicting information about it. On the one hand, the in-take side of the market — editors, agents, distributors — say that the historical romance market is pretty much stone cold dead, and trying to sell an historical romance manuscript is like trying to sell [...]
Read more »The Complete Ellora’s Cave Primer for Newbies Who Are Too Afraid To Ask – Part 4 (and Final)
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The Complete Ellora’s Cave Primer for Newbies Who Are Too Afraid To Ask – Part 3
How to Ease into Ellora’s Cave
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Once you’ve orientated yourself and [...]
New for History Addicts and Historical Romance Writers – The History Portal
One of the official duties I carried out at RomantiCon last weekend was to sit on the Historical Romance panel on the Sunday. That’s me in the pic to the left, second from the left, sitting next to the lady in the kirtle, listening to the lady expound on the pitfuls of writing historical romances, [...]
Read more »The Complete Ellora’s Cave Primer for Newbies Who Are Too Afraid To Ask – Part 2
What Ellora’s Cave Has To Offer You, The Reader
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The Complete Ellora’s Cave Primer for Newbies Who Are Too Afraid To Ask – Part 1
Part 1: What is Ellora’s Cave?
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Jump to Part 2: What Ellora’s Cave Has To Offer You, The Reader
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Jump To Part 4: Other Way To Keep Up With Ellora’s Cave
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