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I’ve got a theory about this. I know a lot of female readers who have switched to male/male romance, not just because two hot men are better than one, but because they’re finding het (male/female) romance boring. Not that the plots are slow or the same or whatnot, just that they…

Do you follow Writer Beware? If you’re a writer, it’s an invaluable source of information. However (you just knew that was coming, right?) I have been following the recent posts about the process of getting published and am…not disgruntled…but my gruntle is vaguely irritated in that way where you want it…

I ran a chapter of mine through this analyzer and got this result: I write like Anne RiceI Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! I’m sort of … stunned. Especially because it was Captain Devlin’s Captive, not Vampire Close. So then I ran a chapter from…

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There is something touching about this. Here is a short story, handwritten in parts, by H.P. Lovecraft. It is a submission copy. Which means this is the actual manuscript he sent in to a publisher hoping it would be bought for publication. His address is in the top corner (along…

If someone were to come up to you and sneer, “I don’t write romance. I write a real love story involving real people grappling with real dilemmas*,” is your response:a) “Oh, so you do write romance, then?”b) “Pretentious, much?”c) “I assume this dismissal of an entire genre was reached through…

Nathaniel Hawthorne (who as you can see was somewhat of a hottie) also experienced libel accusations in regard to one of his most famous works of fiction.In The House of Seven Gables, the name of the corrupt, evil villain is Judge Pyncheon. It just so happens that there actually was…

You may have heard how a Georgia jury found the author of The Red Hat Club, a novel, libeled her former friend by basing a character in the book on her – going so far as to even identify her actual neighbors – and adding that she was a right-wing,…

From http://www.annaguirre.com/archives/2009/11/18/rwa-has-stones/ :Romance Writers of America was informed of the new venture between Harlequin Enterprises and ASI Solutions to form Harlequin Horizons, a vanity/subsidy press. Many of you have asked the organization to state its position regarding this new development. As a matter of policy, we do not endorse any…

If you follow the writing – especially romance writing – community at all, you will have heard of the new partnership between AuthorSolutions and Harlequin: Harlequin Horizons.Some people are worried that:1) This venture will dilute the Harlequin brand. In other words, that a reader will pick up a Horizons book…