by Holland Rae | Dec 17, 2018 | Editing, Industry, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Research, Romance Novels
This isn’t an easy one for me to write. Recently, one of my presses shut down – my third press to either change management or go bankrupt in just three years, and this very morning I got a pretty devastating rejection letter. I’m having one of those periods of being a...
by Holland Rae | Dec 11, 2018 | Editing, Industry, Musings, My Books, Research
We’ve all been there. The friend at the dinner party. The coworker’s husband. The naive neighbor. Oh, I’d write a book if I had the time. I’ve been working on a story too. I’ve got a great idea for a book. We could split the royalties. As a novelist, journalist and...
by Holland Rae | Dec 3, 2018 | Industry, Musings, My Books, Reading
National Novel Writing Month is over. It was a rough year, perhaps my roughest year, given that I’m now writing for work and for play and I just started a new teaching job, but I did manage to pull off the 50,000 words in thirty days and though the story isn’t quite...
by Holland Rae | Nov 6, 2018 | Art, Characters, Heroines, Musings, My Books, Research, Romance Novels
As a writer, I often run up against this romantic notion of the ‘muse’. Perhaps due to its prevalence in Ancient Greek cultures or because we, as artists, are desperate for a little beauty in a job that can be mind-bogglingly lonely and boring some days, the muse is...
by Holland Rae | Oct 16, 2018 | Editing, Industry, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Research, Series
This post was originally published November 7, 2016. Tips from a successful NaNo-er on how to keep sane, write well, and make your month count! First of all, congrats! Your interest in doing National Novel Writing Month shows an excitement for writing and storytelling...
by Holland Rae | Sep 24, 2018 | Industry, Intersectional Feminism, Interview, My Books, Research, Romance Novels, RWA, Women, Women's Rights, Writing
Recently, I was given the remarkable opportunity to write about the romance writer, reader and industry. A culture snapshot, my editor explained, to give insight into what makes this genre so successful and beloved, despite generations of doubt, dismissal and outright...
