by hollandrae | Aug 28, 2019 | Guest Post, Heroines, Industry, Intersectional Feminism, Reading, Reviews, Romance Novels, Series, Tour
I got to sit down with my friend Moni to chat movies, vampire mythology, and her series, The Oracle Chronicles. Author Interview When did you realize or decide you wanted to be a writer? All throughout my childhood and until I graduated high school I wrote. I would...
by hollandrae | 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 hollandrae | Jun 3, 2019 | Characters, Feminism, Heroes, Heroines, Industry, Inspiration, Intersectional Feminism, Musings, Reviews, Women's Rights
“I think this might be one of my favorite romantic comedies.” My boyfriend is in full cozy mode on the couch, eating ice cream as we watch Ali Wong and Randall Park play the will they, won’t they? game in the new Netflix original film Always Be My Maybe. While he may...
by hollandrae | May 20, 2019 | Characters, Heroines, Industry, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Romance Novels
I think about writing all the time. It doesn’t matter how many stories or series I’m currently writing, editing, outlining or dreaming up, the simplest detail of a day, a conversation, a house on a hill, the taste of a new type of tea, can set off inspiration that...
by hollandrae | Apr 29, 2019 | Characters, Feminism, Heroes, Heroines, Industry, Intersectional Feminism, My Books, Women, Women's Rights
This post contains SPOILERS for Marvel’s END GAME and other films in the MCU. Not big ones, but ya know. In the more than a decade since Marvel first committed to cracking open an entirely new world and our hearts, they’ve come a long way. The first handful of movies,...
by hollandrae | Apr 23, 2019 | Art, Beauty, Characters, Heroines, Historical, Inspiration, My Books, Reading, Research, Romance Novels, Series
It’s true. In the great spectrum of history and the universe, my Bachelor’s degree does not hold up to the onslaught of information, facts, figures, and theories that make up all of humanity, nature, and what we do not know. And that’s awesome. I have only recently...