by Holland Rae | Nov 18, 2019 | Industry, Musings, My Books, National Novel Writing Month, Romance Novels
The first time I did National Novel Writing Month, I didn’t realize there were rules. I had heard in some writer’s group or class or online forum that in the month of November, writers try to write 100 pages. I was a freshman in high school and 100 pages was a lot...
by Holland Rae | Nov 11, 2019 | Characters, Industry, Musings, My Books, Reading
I don’t remember ever being anything but a storyteller. When I was young, I wanted to be many things – a movie director, a perfume maker, a chocolatier (that dream hasn’t fully disappeared), a scientist, but all of those unique and creative dreams stemmed directly...
by Holland Rae | Nov 4, 2019 | Art, Beauty, Historical, Musings, My Books, Regency, Romance Novels
I want to tell you about a house. It would be better to call it an estate, really, with a sprawling, rolling yard, protected from the street with towering bushes, a private drive, a personalized name in brass plating on the stone pillar at its end. I am in love with...
by Holland Rae | Oct 28, 2019 | Characters, Feminism, Harlequin, Heroines, Industry, Paranormal, Reading, Regency, Series
I am a cowboy girl. I read cowboy novels, with sunsets and sweet, passionate kisses, and the kind of lovemaking that happens mostly behind closed doors and thick, rough ranchers hands and southern drawls. Obviously I’m a cowboy girl. What else would I be? If I could...
by Holland Rae | Oct 21, 2019 | Characters, Musings, My Books, Reading, Romance Novels
I am six years old, sitting in my playroom with one of several cartoon-covered journals in my hand. The pages are scribbled with thousands of single-syllable words in pinks and purples: character names, magic spells, fantastical places I’m going to visit one day. I am...
by Holland Rae | Oct 14, 2019 | Industry, Musings, My Books, Research, Romance Novels
I can’t say I’m a huge William Faulkner fan. Not being of his era or his environment, I shy away from the heavily masculine writing style of him and Hemingway, preferring the books that were never on the required reading list but have undoubtedly taught me so much...
by Holland Rae | Oct 9, 2019 | Characters, Guest Post, Historical, Inspiration, Interview, Reading, Reviews, Romance Novels, Tour
I’m lucky enough that I get to share a new story from Catherine and Eleanor, two writers that brilliantly embody British love stories, both in modern and historical times. Here’s my review for their latest release, The Captain and the Theatrical, part of...
by Holland Rae | Oct 7, 2019 | Musings, My Books
When it comes to journaling, I have one of two speeds. I either write vigorously, passionately, insanely – scribing pages in messy script every night before bed, in between tasks throughout the day, at breakfast and at lunch. I write down the things that are happening...
by Holland Rae | Oct 2, 2019 | Characters, Guest Post, Romance Novels, Series, Tour
I got to sit down with MJ Roberts to talk Playboy, rock music, and her current series, Hard Rock. Author Interview When did you realize you wanted to be a writer? When I was ten. Before that (and still) I wanted to be a famous rock and roll star. When I was ten I...
by Holland Rae | Sep 30, 2019 | Characters, Musings, My Books, Romance Novels
“I impaled my friend’s ex-husband on a fence post during a tornado,” Beverly Jenkins tells us. “He doesn’t know. He’s still walking around living and breathing like he hasn’t been dead and buried.” The year is 2016 and keynote speaker Beverly Jenkins is telling the...
