by Holland Rae | Aug 14, 2019 | Characters, Industry, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Regency, Romance Novels, RWA, Women, Women's Rights, Writing
My family thinks what I do is pretty cool. They’re supportive, proud, and genuinely interested in how stories get made, how they get sold, and what, exactly, I will be doing next. That doesn’t mean they always understand it, though. Last week, we went away with the...
by Holland Rae | Aug 9, 2019 | Characters, Heroines, Industry, Musings, My Books, Reading, Research, Romance Novels, Series
As a longtime reader and writer of the romance genre, one of the most common refrains I have come across goes a little like this: But it’s so formulaic. You know how the book is going to end, why bother? It’s just a fill in the blank. Onward and upward. In fact, the...
by Holland Rae | Jul 22, 2019 | Characters, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Research, Romance Novels
There are many things that need to happen in a book in order for it to qualify as good romance. The hero and heroine must go through a series of internal and external conflicts and come out on the other side, there is often a strong female friendship, themes of sex...
by Holland Rae | Jul 16, 2019 | Characters, Editing, Industry, Musings, My Books, Reading, Reviews, Romance Novels, Uncategorized
I’m a Type A creative with a Gemini star sign and a Ravenclaw personality. I work under stress or I don’t work at all, and the more I have going on in a day, the more productive I am. At the moment, I have two novels back from the editor in various stages of editing...
by Holland Rae | Jul 8, 2019 | Characters, Historical, Musings
I’m a crier. I cry. I cry at movies, good things and bad things, scary things and sad things, puppy food commercials, and the news. I am usually overwhelmed with emotion for some reason or another and the people who know me and love me have long accepted that I will...
by Holland Rae | Jun 18, 2019 | Characters, Editing, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Research, Romance Novels
I have to rewrite my book. The problem is that the book is more than halfway complete – not finished, not by any stretch, nor yet early enough in its infancy to teach it another language. This book is a mere first-date-night-arm-reach from hitting the fifty thousand...
