How to Kill a Vampire Vampires are not immortal, as many people think. The Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary defines ‘immortality’ as “unending existence.” The life of a vampire can be ended in a small handful of ways. Therefore, they’re not immortal. The dictionary also defined immortality as “lasting fame”. So if the vampire was particularly famous […]
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Romantic Suspense Heroes – Why Are They Always In Uniform? I noticed this trend when I was writing the RS series a few weeks ago. I was trying to sort out in my own mind all the different sub-categories of RS and found it easier to try and classify them via the occupation of the
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What IS Romantic Suspense, Exactly? Part II This post is part of a series: Part I Part II _________ Last post, I showed how romantic suspense gets into everything, which makes it damned hard to define and limit pure Romantic Suspense. Lisa Gardner, who is arguably one of the best selling romantic suspense authors writing
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And Then There Was Two…Vampires Vampire reproduction — how one vampire went about creating a new vampire — used to be lovingly laid out in detail, but I’ve noticed a trend in romance fiction lately; the actual process of re-creation is glossed over or missing altogether. Even I’m at fault on this one, as there
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Let Me Count The Ways When writing any story at all, an author strives to avoid duplicating anything they’ve written before, especially pet turns of phrase, favourite words and expressions. This can be a challenge in erotic romances. Because I try not to repeat myself (it can happen quite unconsciously), I have become aware of
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What IS Romantic Suspense, Exactly? Part I This post is part of a series: Part I Part II _________ Ask six different readers and writers what romantic suspense is, and you’re likely to get six quite different answers. There is a lot of confusion out there about what is — and most importantly, what isn’t
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What’s With Vampires and Mirrors? There is so much vampire fiction and vampire romance fiction out there that it has reached a critical mass; there are now “trends” in vampire mythology. It seems that some vampire powers and abilities are trendy and some, well, aren’t. Vampires still have a craving for blood – I doubt
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I get asked how to go about getting published in the erotic market almost weekly – usually via private email. I have faithfully answered all those emails over the last few years, despite there already being a lengthy article on the site that answers the question exactly and in detail. (“How To Break Into The
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What Are The Fangs Actually For? Turns out, no one actually shows exactly what the fangs are for, except to mark vampires indelibly as not-human and scary as shit. Those fangs work really well for that, but what do they really do? Before I started writing vampire fiction for a living, I had supposed in
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It’s Just A Job – Ghost Ghosts are the last ‘species’ to be explored in this series. There are probably a dozen or more other minor species, but most of them are variations and off-shoots of the major groups already explored and discussed. Ghosts come in a range of shapes and sizes, from visible apparitions,
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