HAUNTED (or Happy Halloween)

- by Patricia Rosemoor

I remember always wanting to write paranormal romantic suspense of some sort. My editors at Intrigue always told me I couldn’t do it. But somehow I got away with writing HAUNTED, a book set at Halloween, another of many firsts for me. The first Intrigue with a paranormal element – a ghost who provides a [...]

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Things they Don’t Tell You in Writer School: Handling Emotion

- by Elaine Isaak

Here’s the thing.  Some scenes are just harder to write than others.  I don’t care if you’re a plotter or a pantser, if you know just where the scene should go, or if you’re following your characters along on a thrilling adventure–at some point or another, you’re going to hit a scene that’s slow. Not [...]

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Books of the Heart

- by Anna Jacobs

Every now and then, you write a book that you love just a tad more than your other books. We call them ‘books of the heart’. I’ve just had one published, ‘The Trader’s Dream’. Why do I love it so much? Because I waited ten years to write a story with this background. When I [...]

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Spirited Heroines

- by Charlotte Hubbard

Back in the early 90’s when I was first publishing racy Western romances I was totally into writing heroines who let nothing stand in their way, who insisted on living life to the fullest, and who, truth be told, didn’t really need a man. We called them spitfires, referred to them as feisty and unconventional, [...]

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