Tag: romance

Why Do We Write Romance? By Sara Dobie Bauer and Em Shotwell

Why Do We Write Romance? By Sara Dobie Bauer and Em Shotwell

Sara Dobie Bauer Author of the Bite Somebody series and Enchanted trilogy contributor Well, for the sex, obviously. Just kidding—sort of. All stories of every genre should be about people relating (or not relating) to other people. In romance, you get to make two fictional characters do the most amazing thing possible. No, not sex. […]

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Magpies and Well Filling

Magpies and Well Filling

I believe writers are magpies. We collect shiny objects (interesting tidbits of conversation, mannerisms, images, snippets of research – whatever catches our roving eyes) without consciously being aware. Some of the time we note them down, but other times they drift to the back of our minds – seemingly forgotten. There they wait for the […]

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Celebrating Rejection Letters? Easy After Finding Felicity is Published

Celebrating Rejection Letters? Easy After Finding Felicity is Published

Rejection letters are beautiful things. I can say that now, feeling somewhat smug that my novel, the very novel for which I have said beautiful rejection letters, has found a home. That it took six years is a fact that I do my best to repress. They were six very very long years. Does it […]

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