For every type of book written, there is a genre that it fits into. A genre is essentially a category. For example, when you look at television programs you see that there are science fiction, comedies, dramas, animated, which may also be comedies too. And most recently the reality genre has been added to television. [...]
Every year the RWA, Romance Writing Association, hosts a writing contest called the The RITA for published romance fiction novels and the Golden Heart for unpublished romance fiction manuscripts. So is winning the Golden Heart your ticket to fame and publication? Not necessarily. I know a wonderful writer who won the Golden Heart in 2008 [...]
You’ve written your romance novel and are ready to start submitting it to publishers. This is the moment you’ve been waiting for, and perhaps dreading a bit. Where do you get started? Whom do you send your manuscript to and how do you send it? While each publisher has their own processes and procedures, follow [...]
Before you can determine if first person is right for your style and story, and if there is any money to be made writing romance novels in a first person viewpoint, it’s important to understand what POV is. Quite simply POV, or point of view, is the perspective from which a story is told. If [...]
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