by Holland Rae | Jun 18, 2018 | Characters, Feminism, Inspiration, Musings, Reading, Romance Novels, Women
You know her, you love her, you’ve maybe even written her. She’s the one no one can deny, the one whose skin seems to pop off the magazine pages in full, airbrushed glory, the one whose skill in fill-in-the-blank is not only impressive for her young age and resources...
by Holland Rae | May 21, 2018 | Audiobooks, Musings, Romance Novels
Asking which book medium is my favorite is a little like asking me to pick my favorite child. (In theory, I don’t have children…) I saw the inspiration for this week’s post and, I’m not joking, my back got tense! I don’t want to pick, I love them all. To be totally...
by Holland Rae | May 7, 2018 | Editing, Inspiration, Musings, Reading, Romance Novels, Uncategorized
Show. Don’t tell. Every person who has ever put pen to paper has heard this line. Don’t tell us we are in Paris, give us the acrid scent of the Seine mixing with buttery croissants, give us the crunch of rough, dusty cobblestoned streets beneath our feet, give us the...
by Holland Rae | Apr 30, 2018 | Editing, Musings, My Books, Reading, Romance Novels
Apparently, I’ve been sick for the last four months. As it stands, I’m writing from the local library, rather than the comfort of my own home office, because the plaster we’ve been using to renovate our bathroom and my respiratory system do not make great bedfellows....
by Holland Rae | Apr 23, 2018 | Characters, Heroines, Inspiration, Musings, Reading, Reviews, Romance Novels, Women, Women's Rights
I’ve been writing romance novels for a long time and reading them for even longer, and for many of those joyous years of dukes and pirates and seductive billionaires, I didn’t ask questions of the genre. Admittedly, it took awhile before I broke away from the...
by Holland Rae | Apr 16, 2018 | Characters, Editing, Industry, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Research, Series
Though it may seem counterintuitive, writing a series is oftentimes easier than writing a stand-alone book. For one, building your world, and the characters, settings, and constructs within that world, is something you do only once, using the following books to add or...
