by Holland Rae | Mar 28, 2019 | Characters, Feminism, Industry, Reading, Romance Novels, RWA, Women's Rights
We’re still here. A year after the RITA awards were acknowledged as problematic and promoting of a biased system, we are once again, as a romance industry, fighting for inclusivity and equal opportunities for all authors. Small victories for authors from historically...
by Holland Rae | Mar 5, 2018 | Art, Beauty, Characters, Heroines, My Books, Research, Romance Novels, Writing
I don’t do it on purpose. I don’t sit down at the computer and say ‘hmm, what’s the important message of the day and how can I squeeze it into chapter three?” It doesn’t work that way, at least not for me. The themes and lessons so to speak, that show up in my books...
by Holland Rae | Nov 13, 2017 | Beauty, Body Image, Characters, Industry, Musings, Reading, Romance Novels, Women's Rights
Feminism is nuanced. Not only does it change from day to day, but there are a thousand different angles from which to analyze the impact of media, politics and science on the relationship – and subsequent privilege and oppression – between the sexes. Sometimes they...
by Holland Rae | Nov 6, 2017 | Characters, Heroines, Industry, Inspiration, Musings, My Books, Reading, Romance Novels, Statistics, Women's Rights
I was born in 1992. By the time I understood what the word “career” actually meant, women were successfully following them in business, art, law and medicine. From an early age I was encouraged and exposed to women in positions of power and told that I could be...
by Holland Rae | Aug 28, 2017 | Characters, Editing, Heroines, Humor, Industry, Musings, My Books, Reading, Research, Romance Novels, RWA, Series, Women's Rights
Like many romance novelists, especially of my generation, writing romance was a natural progression from the online community of fan fiction, where we learned much about the female gaze, erotic and not-so-erotic sex, and how to play puppet master with characters and...
