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Baby It's Cold Out

I'll be honest, I've never written a story sit in during the winter. While I find it beautiful....









I look at them and think baby, it's cold out. I want doughnuts and something hot...but not anything that involves another person. Why? I think because setting is a major part of my writing. I love to incorporate it. And winter... well winter is cold. I got nothing else. And I doubt the

Indies & Libraries, Together In Midwinter

Hi everyone! I am YA, and now MG author Barbara Binns , writer of contemporary and realistic fiction for adolescents and teens. My tagline tells you what I am about - Stories of Real Boys Growing Into Real Men - and the people who love them.  My newest book, Courage, is middle grade fiction that will be coming out next summer from Harper Collins.

I spent the weekend at the American Library

Valentine's Day Top 10 Playlist

by Madelle Morgan





What gets
you in the mood for love? 



For me, it’s music. For Valentine’s Day I decided to
create a YouTube playlist of my top 10 favorite love songs by male artists. There
are several classics in the mix, betraying my age... 



If you subscribe to a music streaming service such as Spotify.com, use the list below to set up a playlist and add your favorite songs. 

Australian Winter Memories

Hi,



My name
is Susan Horsnell and it's my pleasure to be here on the Romancing the Genres
Blog. I'd like to thank Judith for inviting me.



I write
Historical Western Romance and under my pen name - A.L. Simpson - I write
Steamy Contemporary, M/M and Shapeshifter. I will leave all the links at the
end of this post but first, I'm here to talk about Winter in the Northern
Hemisphere and Summer

Overcoming Stress

by Diana McCollum



We have all faced tough times and stress in our lives and dealt with it in various ways.



I’ve found
exercise, walking or the machines at the gym, to be a great stress reliever for me. When walking I’ve
worked through and solved some of my problems. Something about moving and
thinking at the same time, just works for me.



Another
thing I’ve found that helps is thinking

Advice for Tough Times by Lynn Lovegreen

If you’ve lived for a significant amount of years, you’ve had tough times. I have too, including stressful jobs, the death of loved ones, and bouts of depression. While I can’t say I have the cure for every ill, I can share a few things I’ve learned along the way.



Let yourself feel negative emotions. Many of us are taught to dwell on positive emotions and try to be happy or cheerful all the

Just Breathe...Correctly

While there are hundreds of
ways to cope, there is only one way to keep going—tough times or not. The
answer is simple: keep breathing.





But the human spirit wants
more than mere existence, we want to feel good; we want to be happy. While most
of us can “soldier on,” sometimes life makes every bit of that march pure
torture.












When my husband died, my
marching halted altogether and

Sheryl Lister's LOVE'S SERENADE: For the Jazz Lover in You

Decades: A Journey of African American Romance




Note:
Love’s Serenade is the third book in
the Decades: A Journey of African
American Romance series. This series consists of 12 books, each set in one
of 12 decades between 1900 and 2010. 
Each story focuses on the romance between African American protagonists,
but also embraces the African American experience within that decade. Join the

Writing is my Therapy by Paty Jager

Writing is hard. I hear that a lot from people who don't write and people who have published several books.

I don't find writing hard. Writing has always been my outlet for inner struggles, entertainment, and finding my way. Since learning how to read, words have opened doors to me through books I've read and stories I've written. It's true when they say every story or book that has been

Winter Can Be Wonderful...or Deadly

by Madelle Morgan
On a sunny Saturday in mid-January, I walked along a trail by a frozen lake and thought about what I'd say in this post on the topic of writing a novel with a winter setting.

I was visiting my mother who lives by Lake Simcoe, located between Toronto and Muskoka, Ontario. The lake was dotted with dozens of ice fishing huts and people enjoying the unseasonable above-freezing