Denise Williams's Blog, page 2

What I'm Reading

August in the Williams house started out with my returning to my campus and my son returning to day care. Life felt a little bit normal for a couple weeks until we were exposed to someone who tested positive and went back into quarantine for 14 days. That on top of everything else going on has kept me up at night, but an upside to that has been lots of time to read, so I thought I'd give you a roundup of some recent reads that have distracted me and made me smile! Here to Stay by Adriana Herre...

HOW MY FRIENDS FAILED AT FLIRTING

I convinced my friends to join me on Instagram this fall to share their flirting fails as we get close to the release of How to Fail at Flirting on December 1 and all these incredible 2020 releases. Loathe At First Sight is available August 18, 2020 from Avon. Pre-Order available now! Check out my upcoming guests and their 2020 books!

My Annual List: What I've Learned

When I was a senior in high school, my AP English teacher asked us to write the top twenty things we’d learned at that point. I’ve repeated that activity on my birthday for the last twenty years. This year, I thought I’d share a few items from my list of things I’ve learned at 38 along with recent and not so recent reads that take me back to the lesson. Only one person is in charge of my happiness and I should listen to her because she's smart.
Well-Behaved Indian Women by Saumya Dave
​"From a c...

Black or Multiracial Authors Writing Romance

Note: All these authors are Black or multiracial to the best of my knowledge, but not all write Black Romance where the people in the relationship are both/all Black. Language matters and I need to be more conscientious of being clear, because Black Romance is so often marginalized to begin with and there is a dearth of Black love stories in traditional publishing. 

Books featuring Black love on the cover are often ignored and implicit (sometimes explicit) bias is always at play. If that fits you...

Blowing You A #FridayKiss On A Wednesday

Every Friday, AllTheKissing hosts #FridayKiss on social media. They share a theme, and writers can post a few lines of to match the theme. Can I tell you? I L-O-V-E this prompt game. Finding and creating the prompts, seeing other people's words, and it all being in the realm of love...it's always a reset button for me, no matter how hard the week has been and there have been some hard weeks. 
Unsure if you'll be a fan of Denise Williams books? Here a few of my favorite twitter prompt posts!
Swooni...

Romance Cover Puzzle

Who among us isn't looking for another puzzle? Check out the embedded puzzle below or visit https://jigex.com/4anM. To start this puzzle featuring the May-December Berkley Romance covers! By clicking on the image icon, you can preview the finished puzzle and clicking the grid when you begin allows you to adjust the number of pieces. Enjoy!Jigsaw Puzzle

Listen To Me On The Fat Like Me Podcast

I loved joining Cass and Taj at Fat Like Me talking about body representation, pandemic resilience, the 1991 board game, Dream Phone, intersectionality, books, reading, romance, and love. Listen to the podcast

listen to me on the fat like me podcast

I loved joining Cass and Taj at Fat Like Me talking about body representation, pandemic resilience, the 1991 board game, Dream Phone, intersectionality, books, reading, romance, and love. Listen to the podcast

THE GIF OF A HAPPILY EVER AFTER: ROMANCE NOVELS VIA GIFS (VOL. 2)

Romance writers are proud of many things related to our craft: character development, humor, snappy dialogue, and steamy love scenes. There's something else, though. We're proud of our GIF game! Meet some up and coming authors' romance novels as described by the authors in GIFs. The authors from vol. 1 of The Gif of a Happily Ever After nominated these authors whose books we can't wait to see in print. Hot Copy by Ruby Barrett
Rosie Danan, author of The Roommate (available 9/15/20),...

Support our guest speakers!

Spring 2020 continues to show us the human capacity for care and resilience, and, it seems, there's no better time to think critically about our genre and the world around us than when we're in the middle of so much turmoil. If you've joined us for #2020RomClass, you've heard from our wonderful guest speakers. Consider supporting them by pre-ordering their upcoming books. I've loved co-facilitating Moving Past Bodice Ripping Toward Shredding The Patriarchy: Romance Novels and Tools for...