Regardless of your passion and pursuits, sometimes self doubt creeps in. You begin to think: Is this what I’m really meant to do? Maybe I’m not good enough. I can’t seem to get over this hurdle Maybe I should be doing something else. I’m going to fail, again. These thoughts are destructive. They’re like [...]
This is where you begin to plan. (If you haven’t taken the first step, you can find the details here ) In this second step you’ll outline every single step you need to take to achieve your goal. Make sure the steps are realistic. For example, if you say that you’re going to write 5000 [...]
Every writer gets rejected. I just received a rejection yesterday on a book that I thought was going to make it through the process. It was looking good, and then it wasn’t. It hurts. You pour hours, days, weeks and months into a book and then someone tells you what is wrong with it (if [...]
I suffer from a strange combination of naivete and arrogance – the result means I rarely think, “I can’t do _____.” or “I’m too old to ____.” It never crosses my mind that I cannot do anything I set my mind to. Or that age would ever play a factor in my success or failure. [...]
Happy Saturday! If you’ve been up to your eyebrows in your manuscript you may have missed a few things: A great post about something that happens a bit too often in the process of finding the right agent to represent you – http://bookendslitagency.blogspot.com/2010/11/from-scared-client.html Voting is still going on for the Alien-Vampire Bunny Contest. Read the [...]
Erotic romance took off a few years ago and grew to support several ebook publishers like Ellora’s Cave, Siren Publishing and Total-E-Bound just to name a few. I also think it led the way to more epublishing in the romance genre in general. Erotic Romance, coined Erotica by Ellora’s Cave aka Jasmine Jade Publishing, also [...]
It seems, according to articles in just about every major newspaper, that romance novels are on the cusp of a new fad – Amish romance novels. Yep, you read it here. No more vampires, werewolves, faeries, angels and demons. Paranormal is out. Amish is in. So does that mean all the paranormal authors and writers [...]
Okay, I’m just going to be completely upfront here and let everyone know I am both a reviewer for RomanticTimes Book Reviews and a romance writer. As such, it’s very easy for me to see both sides of this coin. A writer wants reviews for their book so they can: Reach a wider audience Bragging [...]
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