by admin | Feb 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
All genre fiction is built using a set of specific tropes. Some of these tropes are used in every genre, including the genre of literary fiction, and some are essential only to a given genre like mystery or horror. These tropes or story elements have evolved over...
by admin | Jan 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
(With apologies to my Alpha Geek hubby…Of course, you, honey, are all I need…along with a book or two or three to read.) I love the all-out Alpha male protagonist in romance novels (which includes the Beta that turns Alpha when a woman he desires shows up). As an...
by admin | May 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
“Many writers who want to be writers don’t really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.” – James Michener Disclaimer: This blog isn’t a complaint about young or beginning writers just starting out who are...
by admin | Feb 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Sean Connery. Ewan McGregor. Gerard Butler. Three of the sexiest male actors to ever cross a stage or smile for the camera. Handsome, utterly masculine and swoon-worthy, it’s no surprise that they are all Scottish. Frankly, Scotsmen have played the lead in many a...
by admin | Feb 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Fictional bad boy heroes come in lots of archetypal flavors: brooding poet-musicians, violent warrior-berserkers, sensual Don Juans, opportunistic pirates, ruthless mercenaries, blood-sucking vampires, and fickle, thrill-seeking bronco riders. But for the romance...
by admin | Jan 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
When we think of a witch, the image of the old crone, the wizened woman of the female trilogy, manifests directly in our mind’s eye. We rarely think first of young, blonde witches like Samantha in Bewitched or Glinda, the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz. Nope. We see...
