by hollandrae | Jul 2, 2020 | Characters, Heroes, Heroines, Industry, Intersectional Feminism, Musings, My Books, Reviews, Romance Novels, Women, Women's Rights
I know, it sounds dirty. But DNF stands for ‘Did Not Finish’ and I don’t do it often. In fact, I didn’t even do it while I was reading this most recent book, by a famous, renowned romance novelist, whose work I’ve enjoyed in the past, but whose latest release is, in...
by hollandrae | Jun 15, 2020 | Characters, Heroes, Heroines, Industry, Musings, Regency, Romance Novels, Women, Women's Rights, Writing
Yes, I’m defending romance novels again. But it’s a little different this time, I swear! (I hope.) See, recently I’ve been coercing my new neighbor into reading romance novels. She’s been alive for more than three decades and she’s never enjoyed a single romance novel...
by hollandrae | Jun 8, 2020 | Industry, Intersectional Feminism, Musings, Research, Romance Novels, Women, Women's Rights
This panel was hosted in summer of 2018, before I moved to Nashville. I briefly considered making edits to this post, but the truth is that more remains the same than has changed in these years of fighting for equal representation, opportunity, and support, and so I...
by hollandrae | May 6, 2020 | Characters, Editing, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Romance Novels
Will they or won’t they – it’s the most important, infuriating question of every romance novel. Will they give into their desire now, in the dark corners of the library? How about now, in the hidden coves of the rose gardens? Will they be interrupted by a gaggle of...
by hollandrae | Apr 27, 2020 | Art, Editing, Heroes, Heroines, Industry, Musings, My Books, Reading, Research, Romance Novels
When the Twilight series hit its zenith of popularity, vampire stories, love triangle stories, and YA fantasy flooded the market. After the success of Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, dystopian fiction with young, often female, protagonists, became inescapable in...
