Look Who’s Dipping Into the Magic Punch Bowl: Minor Characters Add Life To...
We love our main couples. We want them to win readers hearts while striving for their own HEA. We create their family, backstory, and carefully decide what means of transportation they will own (car,...
View ArticleOh No, Here come the Homonyms: And other Writerly Tips
Author Michele Drier Writing paranormal and fantasy romance can be great fun! Nobody’s seen a vampire or a shape-shifter or a fae. Nobody has (yet) been successfully transported back to the Wild West...
View ArticleLook Who’s Dipping Into the Magic Punch Bowl: Minor Characters Add Life To...
We love our main couples. We want them to win readers hearts while striving for their own HEA. We create their family, backstory, and carefully decide what means of transportation they will own (car,...
View ArticleThe Haunting
Author Brenda B Taylor I have never believed in ghosts, or at least I didn’t until I stayed in Room 8 at the Tulloch Castle Hotel in Dingwall, Scotland last September. My cousin, Kathy, and I...
View ArticleYou Know It When You Read It
Hi, everyone—thank you for having me here! So I’ve noticed a difference in how some Urban Fantasies are being marketed. Have you ever seen a book spine that identifies a story as Urban Fantasy Romance?...
View ArticleTo Series or Not to Series
Author Jackie Ivie Thank you so much for having me! I don’t write many BLOGs. I think I’ve done maybe twelve in my career – most of them dealing with one real life experience I know a bit about:...
View ArticleThe Character Couch – Put YOUR Characters into Therapy
Author Tracy Tappan In the action-packed movie “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are a husband and wife who don’t know each other are assassins. The movie opens with these two sitting...
View ArticleStep Away from the Computer: Tips to get Your Body Moving
Author Beth Barany Since we writers sit for our profession, if we want to stay healthy, we need to counter all that sitting with movement. In this article, I’ll cover some of the tools and techniques...
View ArticleAll I Ever Needed to Know about being a Healthy Person I Learned from...
They do exist. And they’re not going anywhere. My tag line for my Fierce Hearts series suggests something unknown lives among us and these unknowns belong on the planet just like other forms of life....
View ArticleWe All Feel The Call of The Stars by Jen Crane
Readers of fantasy, sci-fi and paranormal are, by nature, perhaps more open to the magical pull of the cosmos. We’re keenly receptive to the possibility of magic or divine intervention—it...
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