Sex Scenes

At a recent writers meeting a few twitter stalkers of Ken’s was teasing him about writing love scenes. The story goes that when he got to a love scene in his WIP, he twittered that he hated to write them. The next day his mom, via computer web cam – cool mom – told him [...]

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How will we swear in The Future?

Over the course of four manuscripts, I discovered that my natural genre is science fiction romance–sort of space-going international thrillers with a happy-ending romance thrown in. Hey, romance is consistently more than half of mass market paperbacks sold; I’m not completely stupid.
So here’s the weird thing: I’ve entered contests, I’ve sent out manuscripts for cold [...]

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Formula versus Expectations

As the only Girl posting and the only Romance writer I thought I’d talk a bit about genres and writer beliefs about those other genres. You know what I’m talking about. Those perceived assumptions that certain genres are formulaic. This genre is better than that genre because at least it isn’t predictable or trite. Most [...]

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