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March 22, 2016
Romance Novels: What Are They, Anyway?
Yesterday, we pondered the question of whether or not a book that is labeled/marketed as a Romance Novel needs to have a happy ending. I thought we could look today at what we’re really talking about when we throw around the term “Romance Novel.” A little background on my experience with this genre: I have […]
March 21, 2016
Romance Novels: To Happy Ending or Not to Happy Ending?
Last week, Book Riot posed the question: Should romance novels always have happy endings? I shared the link to the Romance genre forum for discussion among the alumni and current students of the Writing Popular Fiction program at my grad school, Seton Hill University. Book Riot directs the conversation this way: As a romance reader […]
March 19, 2016
Books Read in 2016: ‘The Captain’s Wallflower’ by Audrey Harrison #amreading
The Captain’s Wallflower by Audrey Harrison My rating: 2.5 of 5 stars Book Summary from Goodreads: Captain Worthington is injured in the battle of Trafalgar. Blinded by shrapnel, his life goes from being at the forefront of society to being almost cast off. He finds himself sitting with the wallflowers at a ball – something […]
March 18, 2016
Fun Friday: How Far Back in Time Could You Go and Still Understand English?
For those of us who are fans of time-travel science fiction/fantasy costume dramas, we’re used to the standard trope that, with perhaps the addition of a few “period” words thrown in for flavor, the characters of that historical time period all speak mostly modern English and our modern characters can understand everything they’re saying. As […]
March 17, 2016
#TBT: So You Want to Be a Writer? #amwriting
Originally published September 23, 2013 One of the comments I hear most often when people find out I’m a published author is: “Oh, I’ve always wanted to write.” Or something similar: “I have a story I’ve been thinking about writing for a long time. How do I get started?” In my mind, what separates true […]
March 15, 2016
Timer Tuesday: Read or Write for One Uninterrupted Hour Today #amwriting #amreading #1k1hr
I’m changing this up a little bit, because I know not everyone who reads this blog is a writer. From now on, the challenge on Tuesdays will be to schedule and complete at least one interrupted hour of reading or writing some time during the day (if you’re a writer, I’m challenging you to do […]
March 14, 2016
Monday Motivation: Misused Modifiers (A Grammar Lesson from TED-Ed) #amwriting
I know grammar lessons aren’t necessarily motivational, but they are very important. So here’s a TED-Ed lesson on modifiers and how to not misuse them. Filed under: Authors/Reading, Monday Motivation
March 12, 2016
Books Read in 2016: ‘A Very Proper Monster’ by Elizabeth Hunter #amreading
A Very Proper Monster by Elizabeth Hunter from Beneath a Waning Moon—A Duo of Gothic Romances My rating: 3.75 of 5 stars Book Summary from Goodreads: In A VERY PROPER MONSTER, Josephine Shaw spends long nights filling the pages of her Gothic stories with the fantastic and the macabre, unaware that the suitor her father […]
March 11, 2016
Fun Friday — PBS and Ridley Scott’s ‘Mercy Street’
In case you didn’t catch it after Downton Abbey this winter, in the U.S., PBS aired a six-part miniseries that quickly became my new favorite costume drama: Mercy Street. I know some people chose not to watch it because they thought it might be too gory—and I will admit that there were some medical scenes […]
March 10, 2016
#TBT: You Know You’re a Writer If . . .
Originally posted March 23, 2007 Signs you might be afflicted with the condition known as WRITER: You would rather talk to the voices in your head than the person sitting next to you. You know the research librarian’s office, cell, and home phone numbers but can’t remember your own. Some of the letters on your […]
