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I Hate You, I Want You, I Love You

I Hate You, I Want You, I Love You

by hollandrae | Jul 27, 2020 | Characters, Harry Potter, Heroines, Humor, Industry, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Reading, Regency, Research, Romance Novels

“What’s my problem, Mila?” he asked, all the more intimidating and enticing for the lowness of his voice. “What’s my problem, tell me. I want to know.”   The above quote is from my current work in progress, In My Sights, and though it doesn’t squarely follow the...
13 Stages of Writing a Novel

13 Stages of Writing a Novel

by hollandrae | Jul 16, 2020 | Humor, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Research

1.The greatest idea in the world comes to you.  2.  You spend several days just thinking about every wonderful and perfect part of your unwritten manuscript. 3. You start the researching process.  4. Outline! Outline! Outline!  5. Start Writing! 6....
Talk Nerdy to Me

Talk Nerdy to Me

by hollandrae | Dec 10, 2019 | Art, Beauty, Characters, Heroines, Humor, Musings, Regency, Romance Novels

I’m going to come right out and say it. I’m over alpha males who can’t string a sentence together. Shocker, I know. But seriously. I know our loins get all fluttery and we revert back to some real knuckle-dragger tendencies when it comes to the hot...
Pulsing Patrol

Pulsing Patrol

by hollandrae | Jul 2, 2019 | Editing, Humor, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Romance Novels

Do you ever have a moment in your writing when a character’s actions feel so right? They’re so perfectly aligned to the personality that you can almost picture your hero sitting in your bedroom doing the thing. Then, a month later, when you go over the draft for the...
Working Title

Working Title

by hollandrae | May 14, 2018 | Characters, Editing, Heroines, Humor, Industry, Research, Romance Novels, Statistics, Writing

When it comes to titles, I am all or none. Some days, the blessed title deities generously bequeath the perfect name for my current work in progress, simply out of the kindness of their hearts. Other days, the well runs dry, the ground cracks below my feet, and I beg...
The Ideal Romance Hero – What’s inside?

The Ideal Romance Hero – What’s inside?

by hollandrae | Apr 2, 2018 | Characters, Humor, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Reading, Romance Novels

I realized some time ago that I don’t have a type. Sometimes, I think I do – a sexy Italian man with long hair and seductive, dark eyes or a sinewy, brilliant professor, who keeps me late after class to discuss Aristotle and the role of intersectional feminism in...
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