When I first wrote Terror Stash, it didn’t have a romance in it at all. I wasn’t entirely sure I was even going to publish it under my own name. It was a straight thriller, not set in North America, but did feature an American heroine. It was set in the obscure and little-known area […]
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Within a couple of weeks of arriving in Canada, once the almost permanent headache that came from concentrating so hard on the funny accents had gone away, I came to a startling conclusion. Now that I was in North America, I was free to read and write the wildly different types of romances that you
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Elle Brookes is one of the co-authors of The Fabergé Entanglement, a romantic thriller with a fantastic cover, and a blurb that makes me want to read it right now and yesterday. Please welcome Ellie Brooks as my guest today and get to know her: ____________ Who are your favourite authors? Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne,
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I first started writing romances for publication when I was still living in Australia. When I began, I did a lot of research about writing for Romanceland, and what editors of the day were looking for. Nearly everyone I knew that was also writing, was writing for publication with Mills & Boon–about the only romances
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I write a lot of sexy books. You may have noticed. 2013 was one of my peaks of productivity for books. I wrote and released nearly two dozen of them. And nearly every single one of them was an erotic romance. One can get awfully sick of describing sex after so many books, although I
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A great many authors start off their stories by asking themselves a very famous question. What if…? For example, the English author of action thrillers, Desmond Bagley, wrote his best seller, Running Blind, not because he wanted to write a spy thriller, but because he had spent his summer vacation in Iceland, and wanted to
Today’s guest blogger is Jan Scarborough. ___ In September, I attended the 2015 Imaginarium, a convention covering all facets of creative writing. There I participated in a panel entitled “Outside Influences.” I learned from the discussion that the other four writers, no matter the genre, had similar paths to their careers—a passion for reading, an
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There were two major influences that drove me as I wrote Heart of Vengeance, one of them positive, the other horribly negative…but I’ll get to that one in a minute. The positive one was an old 1952 movie that I must have watched three or four times growing up. There was only one TV station
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Perilous Princess came out on Friday, and has received some rave reviews already. The fact that I’m still mulling over this story tells me that the plot was more complex than I originally imagined. I read the book in very short order, and found it hard to put down. No matter what genre – Tracy
A Princess + A Bastard, a match made in Heaven? Read More »
Hello, everyone! I’m Rachel Leigh Smith, author of romance for the hero lover. Tracy kindly let me come on to tell you about my sci-fi romance series A’yen’s Legacy. As a writer and a reader, I have a preference for a certain type of hero, the warrior hero. The first thing that comes to mind