by hollandrae | Aug 13, 2018 | Characters, Heroes, Heroines, Historical, Musings, Reading, Romance Novels, Series
I recently moved to Nashville, but before I left I had the wonderful opportunity to hear Joanna Shupe speak at a luncheon hosted by my local chapter. For those of you unfamiliar with her work, Joanna Shupe got her start writing, what else, Regency novels, but recently...
by hollandrae | Jul 16, 2018 | Amazon, Romance Novels
Or Admitting You Can’t Read Them All Like many romance, chick-lit and erotica fans can attest, I’ve been reading the genre for ages. Of course, if you start young, your interests changes and you begin to accept different sub-genres, series, and media into your...
by hollandrae | 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 hollandrae | 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 hollandrae | Oct 2, 2017 | Characters, Heroines, Historical, Musings, My Books, Regency, Research, Romance Novels, Series, Statistics, Women, Women's Rights
This blog post is in reference to an article published by The New York Times, which can be found here. X If the influx of nuclear war threats, rumors of treasons and bigotry against celebrities invoking their first amendment rights has kept you from the real issues,...