Guest Blogs

New Post up at Heroes and Heartbreakers

September 27, 2011

Yup, I’m a day late posting about this, but I have a new blog post up at Heroes and Heartbreakers, where I talk about how I believe Dungeons & Dragons made it possible for us to have a dragon as a Paranormal Romance hero! Here There Be Dragons: Are Dragons the Next Big Thing in [...]

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Guest Blog by Melissa Jarvis

June 14, 2011

  MAKING THE PAST COME TO LIFE… LITERALLY Have you always dreamed of descending a grand staircase in your cotillion ball gown like Scarlett O’Hara? Waiting for your boyfriend or husband to fight a duel in your honor instead of over the remote? Longing for the days of tea and crumpets and manners? Until science [...]

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Guest Blog by D.D. Scott

August 28, 2010

“BOOTSCOOTIN’ BLAHNIKS: A Little Bit Country, And a Whole Bunch Rock n’…Romantic Comedy” First, a huge yippee-ki-yay shout-out to everyone here at Romantically Speaking Podcast! I’m romantic comedy author D. D. Scott, and my debut release BOOTSCOOTIN’ BLAHNIKS is a little bit country and a whole bunch romantic comedy.  In fact, its chick lit, gone-country.  [...]

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Guest Blog by Alayna Williams

June 19, 2010

GETTING CREATIVE WITH THE TAROT The tool that inspired me most in writing DARK ORACLE was entirely random – a deck of Tarot cards. The Tarot provides plenty of inspiration for writers seeking to build a story. As a visual person, I’ve always been drawn to the pictures and rich symbolism of the decks. In [...]

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Guest Blog by Laura Bickle

April 18, 2010

Old myths have a way of creeping into new stories. Myths began to wiggle into mine through a chain of happy accidents that built upon each other. When I began EMBERS, I had the idea of a fire salamander familiar in mind for the heroine, Anya. Sparky the salamander is rooted in the ideas that [...]

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Guest Blog by Rose Lerner

February 28, 2010

Follies and Monkeys The Oxford English Dictionary gives one of the definitions of “folly” as “a popular name for any costly structure considered to have shown folly in the builder.” A particular type of folly became popular in England in the 18th and 19th centuries: small buildings on an estate in an attempt to mimic [...]

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Guest Blog by Amber Scott

January 31, 2010

Five Lessons Indie Press Taught Me: 1. Write For Yourself. I sit at my laptop, hands on the keyboard, frozen by the thought, Have I gone too far? What would an editor think of that? Or, worst of all, What would Uncle Bill think? Editors, agents and a few family members are predominantly who make [...]

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Guest Blog by Ann Charles

January 24, 2010

When the Going Gets Tough… (and other “tried and true” phrases) A while ago I spent some time on a podcast with our lovely host, Danielle Monsch, talking about a multitude of things, most of which had to do with writing. When all was said and done, we’d had plenty of laughs, but she brought [...]

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