Damn Good Romances III – Romantic Conflict
This post is part of a series. Part 1: Damn Good Romances Part II: Romantic Tension Part III: Romantic Conflict ______________ Romantic Conflict Romantic Conflict is perhaps one of the most misunderstood functions of a romance novel. It gets misused by writers and critics. But when it is used well…wow! Then you’ve got a romance [...]
Damn Good Romances – Part II: Romantic Tension
This post is part of a series. Part 1: Damn Good Romances Part II: Romantic Tension Part III: Romantic Conflict ______________ Romantic Tension Romantic Tension is one of those invisible elements in a romance novel. New writers are often told they need romantic conflict, characters, a plot, and sometimes they’re even advised that emotional intensity [...]
Damn Good Romances – Part 1
This post is part of a series. Part 1: Damn Good Romances Part II: Romantic Tension Part III: Romantic Conflict ______________ Mark and I were arguing…sorry, “discussing” what makes a good romance, the other day. We’re deeply hooked by the TV series NCIS, and working our way through Season 7 at the moment. Two of [...]
A Toolkit And Compass for Romanceland – Part V
A Toolkit And Compass for Romanceland Because All The Roads Are Being Re-Built (Maybe) Contributing To Word-of-Mouth This is Part 5 (and the last) of a series: Part 1:Romanceland Meltdown Part 2: Finding Books – Part 1 Part 3: Finding Books – Part 2 Part 4: Assessing Books Part 5: Contributing To Word-of-Mouth (Series based [...]
Why You Shouldn’t Rely On Best Seller Lists To Buy Romances
Of course you’re looking for the best romances out there. You don’t want to read crap, afterall. But there’s some very good reasons why using best-seller lists, “top author”, “Best of,” “most popular” and other similar listings of books is the worst way of finding the best romances to read. The traffic stats on my [...]
A Toolkit And Compass for Romanceland – Part IV
A Toolkit And Compass for Romanceland Because All The Roads Are Being Re-Built (Maybe) Assessing Books This is Part 4 of a series: Part 1:Romanceland Meltdown Part 2: Finding Books – Part 1 Part 3: Finding Books – Part 2 Part 4: Assessing Books Part 5: Contributing To Word-of-Mouth (Series based upon a guest post [...]
A Toolkit And Compass for Romanceland – Part III
A Toolkit And Compass for Romanceland Because All The Roads Are Being Re-Built (Maybe) Finding Books – Part 2 This is Part 3 of a series: Part 1:Romanceland Meltdown Part 2: Finding Books – Part 1 Part 3: Finding Books – Part 2 Part 4: Assessing Books Part 5: Contributing To Word-of-Mouth (Series based upon [...]
A Toolkit And Compass for Romanceland – Part II
A Toolkit And Compass for Romanceland Because All The Roads Are Being Re-Built (Maybe) Finding Books – Part 1 This is Part 2 of a series: Part 1:Romanceland Meltdown Part 2: Finding Books – Part 1 Part 3: Finding Books – Part 2 Part 4: Assessing Books Part 5: Contributing To Word-of-Mouth (Series based upon [...]
A Toolkit And Compass for Romanceland – Part 1
A Toolkit And Compass for Romanceland Because All The Roads Are Being Re-Built (Maybe) Romanceland Meltdown This is Part 1 of a series: Part 1:Romanceland Meltdown Part 2: Finding Books – Part 1 Part 3: Finding Books – Part 2 Part 4: Assessing Books Part 5: Contributing To Word-of-Mouth (Series based upon a guest post [...]
Ease Yourself Into MMF Romances – Part II
How can MMF be Romantic? This is Part Two of a Series Part 1: Ménages Categorized Part 2: How can MMF be romantic? Part 3: How To Read Your First MMF Romance Part 4: Where To Find Your MMF Romances Part 5: Narrow Down Your List of Potential MMF Novels To Read Part 6: Keeping [...]
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