by Holland Rae | Jul 16, 2018 | Amazon, Romance Novels
Or Admitting You Can’t Read Them All Like many romance, chick-lit and erotica fans can attest, I’ve been reading the genre for ages. Of course, if you start young, your interests changes and you begin to accept different sub-genres, series, and media into your...
by Holland Rae | Jul 2, 2018 | Characters, Heroines, Industry, Inspiration, My Books, Romance Novels, Statistics, Women, Women's Rights, Writing
The romance novel genre gets a bad rap. It always has. From the very beginning, stories about women, both in the domestic sphere and the professional world, that didn’t adhere to the strictures of a patriarchal status quo were rejected as lesser than, fluff...
by Holland Rae | Jun 18, 2018 | Characters, Feminism, Inspiration, Musings, Reading, Romance Novels, Women
You know her, you love her, you’ve maybe even written her. She’s the one no one can deny, the one whose skin seems to pop off the magazine pages in full, airbrushed glory, the one whose skill in fill-in-the-blank is not only impressive for her young age and resources...
by Holland Rae | Jun 11, 2018 | Characters, Industry, Inspiration, Research, Romance Novels, RWA, Statistics, Women, Women's Rights, Writing
I have been professionally writing romance novels for about four and half years. In that time, I’ve come to appreciate romance as not only a feminist genre, but the feminist genre, complete with women in positions of power, healthy, supportive female friendships and a...
by Holland Rae | May 21, 2018 | Audiobooks, Musings, Romance Novels
Asking which book medium is my favorite is a little like asking me to pick my favorite child. (In theory, I don’t have children…) I saw the inspiration for this week’s post and, I’m not joking, my back got tense! I don’t want to pick, I love them all. To be totally...
by Holland Rae | May 14, 2018 | Characters, Editing, Heroines, Humor, Industry, Research, Romance Novels, Statistics, Writing
When it comes to titles, I am all or none. Some days, the blessed title deities generously bequeath the perfect name for my current work in progress, simply out of the kindness of their hearts. Other days, the well runs dry, the ground cracks below my feet, and I beg...
by Holland Rae | May 7, 2018 | Editing, Inspiration, Musings, Reading, Romance Novels, Uncategorized
Show. Don’t tell. Every person who has ever put pen to paper has heard this line. Don’t tell us we are in Paris, give us the acrid scent of the Seine mixing with buttery croissants, give us the crunch of rough, dusty cobblestoned streets beneath our feet, give us the...
by Holland Rae | Apr 30, 2018 | Editing, Musings, My Books, Reading, Romance Novels
Apparently, I’ve been sick for the last four months. As it stands, I’m writing from the local library, rather than the comfort of my own home office, because the plaster we’ve been using to renovate our bathroom and my respiratory system do not make great bedfellows....
by Holland Rae | Apr 25, 2018 | Characters, Guest Post, Heroes, Reading, Research, Romance Novels, Series, Tour, Writing
I got to sit down with RJ Scott to talk writing, research and her new charity anthology, Love For All Seasons! About the Book! Tell us a little about your new release: Love For All Seasons (A Charity Anthology) The anthology features five established authors and three...
by Holland Rae | Apr 23, 2018 | Characters, Heroines, Inspiration, Musings, Reading, Reviews, Romance Novels, Women, Women's Rights
I’ve been writing romance novels for a long time and reading them for even longer, and for many of those joyous years of dukes and pirates and seductive billionaires, I didn’t ask questions of the genre. Admittedly, it took awhile before I broke away from the...
