by hollandrae | 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 hollandrae | 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 hollandrae | 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 hollandrae | 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 hollandrae | 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...
