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 | Jun 7, 2017 | Editing, Guest Post, Heroines, Industry, Reading, Romance Novels
I sat down with author Sandra Tilley to talk writing, passion and her book, The Ghost and Mrs. Miller! When did you realize or decide you wanted to be a writer? In utero. ☺ Like most of you, it’s part of my DNA. What has been your best experience as an...
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 | Jun 1, 2017 | Feminism, Heroines, Historical, Industry, Inspiration, Reading, Regency, Romance Novels, Women, Women's Rights
It’s been a bit of a wild week! My birthday was Monday but we started celebrating the Friday before and went until Tuesday night, when my mom and best friend and I attended a romance novelists on feminism panel at The Strand Bookstore in New York City. If you...
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...
