by Holland Rae | Jul 17, 2017 | Characters, Heroines, Industry, Musings, Reading, Research, Series, Women
In my quest to read the greats, I recently stumbled upon Suzanne Brockmann’s Troubleshooters series, a military suspense saga with nearly two dozen books and a whole lot to love. Make no mistake, I’m not criticizing the series here. Brockmann is an expert storyteller...
by Holland Rae | Jul 3, 2017 | Art, Beauty, Body Image, Characters, Industry, Musings, My Books, Reading, Romance Novels, Women, Women's Rights
Romance has a problem with men. Make no mistake, this is a feminist issue and, like questions of diversity in age, race and sexual orientation, it needs to be addressed before romance can fully move forward as the progressive, open-minded genre it is. We’ve made great...
by Holland Rae | Jun 5, 2017 | Audiobooks, Characters, Heroines, Industry, Reviews, Romance Novels, Series, Writing
You know that series? The one you’ll talk to anyone about, the one where you rant and rave about the characters and the plot twists, the one you miss immediately after you finish it? The Hard Ink series, by Laura Kaye, will make you do all of those things. Over the...
by Holland Rae | May 24, 2017 | Characters, Guest Post, Heroines, Inspiration, Reading, Romance Novels, Writing
I sat down with Lorna Baldwin to talk writing, passion and her book, Wife for a While! When did you realize or decide you wanted to be a writer? I think I was in third grade. We had a unit in poetry. I remember standing at my teacher’s desk, watching her read...
by Holland Rae | May 22, 2017 | Characters, Heroines, Industry, Reviews, Romance Novels, Series, Uncategorized
I finally caved on GoodReads. For years, every time I finished a book, I’d jot it down in the back of my moleskine journal, scribbling out long titles and dates in the margins of a filling up Read list. So this year, I sat down, set myself a hundred book Good Reads...
by Holland Rae | Apr 12, 2017 | Characters, Guest Post, Heroines, Historical, Inspiration, Reading, Regency, Romance Novels, RWA, Women
I sat down with Christina Britton to learn about her writing process and current projects! When did you realize or decide you wanted to be a writer? When I was thirteen years old (and I remember this vividly), I went into a Waldenbooks and picked out my...