“Why are all the best men taken?” “Huh?” Amanda Burns looked up at her mother, who stood on the other side of the counter in her bicycle shop. The former hippie chick shrugged and tossed her long, gray-sprinkled auburn hair over her shoulder. “I can’t find a decent man anymore. They’re either married or otherwise…
So the original romance novel that I wrote during NaNo was about 54,000 words. The market I’m aiming for is 55-60K. I threw out a bunch of scenes and added new ones. Apparently they are longer ones! Today I discovered that, at 38K, I’ve reached the half-way point of my printed-out copy of the original…
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I don’t read a lot of straight-up contemporary romance novels. Not because I don’t believe in romance–I certainly do!–but because it seems many stories are awkward at finding the right balance. I mean, we all know the plot pattern, right? Boy meets girl, there’s some almost insurmountable bumps in the road, it all comes out…
Okay, now that things are sort of under control on the Forward Motion stuff (the site has been successfully moved but you may not be able to access it for a day or two–I know I can’t yet), I can focus on other things that need doing this week. **Blinks** How did it get to…
I have recently read Brenda Coulter‘s book A Family Forever. I don’t read a lot of conventional romances, whether or not they are *inspirational* (which this one is). You may recall that I read a stack of them in the fall before taking my own run at writing a romance for Nano. Brenda’s previous book…