Romantic suspense is one of the hottest subgenres in the market today and shows no sign of slowing. The subgenre is broad and encompasses a lot of different styles of writing, and one of the first questions that new writers ask is what exactly qualifies as ‘romantic suspense?’ In my opinion, a romantic suspense is […]
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Recently, the Florida lotto was $85 million dollars. Did I buy a ticket? Yep. Ten of ‘em. Did I win? Nope. But someone did – someone who bought the ticket in the same town where I bought mine. A quick pick, no less. So close, I could almost smell the leather interior of my brand […]
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Finding Past Rejection in Publishing. Something sent me to my old file drawer today; I was looking for an address of an agent for a friend, and I knew I’d queried that agent in the past. In my files, I pulled out a dog-eared, overstuffed, tear-stained file folder. I remember creating that file, when I […]
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The Midlist. You know where that is, don’t you? Technically, the midlist is the well-stuffed section of a publisher’s catalog full of books written by authors who are neither debut nor bestsellers. For new writers of commercial genre fiction, most especially in romance, this is a clear and well-defined destination. No longer a newbie, a […]
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