~ By Molly Jameson I had a reputation for exaggerating as a kid. I liked to think of it as creative license. I don’t object to reality necessarily, so much as I’d like to rearrange some things to make it entertaining. So it makes sense for me as an author to bend the living world […]
~ By Marilyn Brant Note: This post originally appeared here. When I was a fourteen-year-old high school freshman in the 1980’s, my English lit teacher had the audacity to foist a supposedly romantic novel on our class. The story took place in Regency England and was considered a “classic,” which I figured was literary shorthand for
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Warning: This post makes references to violence and sexual assault. If you’d rather skip this post, we completely understand. Note: Much of what I share in this post I’ve learned from taking empowerment self-defense and martial arts classes at an organization called El HaLev. Learn more by reading or watching “Beauty Bites Beast” by Ellen Snortland.
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How I fell into the lustful and loving arms of Contemporary Romance Novels… ~ By Rissa Brahm Note: This post originally appeared here. Confession! Only a year and a half ago I was a full-fledged trash-talking anti-romance-novel snob! A total Judgy Judy bitch (!in my mind, not out loud!) toward anyone reading or writing “that
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~ By Victoria Pinder I was describing the plots of my two books due out the week of my wedding, (God has a funny sense of humor sometimes), and my friend laughed at one part of the plot and said ‘you watched soaps once.’ My answer is yes I did. I was once a huge Days
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~ By Marilyn Brant Note: This post originally appeared here. Because February is the Month of Love, after all, I thought I would talk about something related to it. Something I have been thinking about a lot recently… Since I am a writer who enjoys shifting between genres, I have found it interesting that I
The Contemporary Romance Writers Chapter is thrilled to have Peter Senftleben, Associate Editor at Kensington Books, here today to share his expertise on contemporary romance! Please pull up a chair and get a pen and paper, because you’re going to want to take notes on the awesome and useful advice Peter has laid out here for writers
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~ By Debra Elise Some days there’s just too many damn choices. Which brand of creamer, salsa or cookies do I buy today? Well, I guess the last one isn’t that much of a hardship to endure, but my point is, some days I don’t want to have to choose <insert childish whine>. I just want
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~ Nancy Henderson If someone had told me I’d be writing contemporary romance one day, I would have said they were crazy. I’m a historical romance author. I don’t even read contemporary romance. Surely they were off their rockers. Then I read one. I was bored. I had nothing to read, and my mother tossed the
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~ By Debra Elise Some days there’s just too many damn choices. Which brand of creamer, salsa or cookies do I buy today? Well, I guess the last one isn’t that much of a hardship to endure, but my point is, some days I don’t want to have to choose . I just want to
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~ By Victoria Pinder I was describing the plots of my two books due out the week of my wedding, (God has a funny sense of humor sometimes), and my friend laughed at one part of the plot and said ‘you watched soaps once.’ My answer is yes I did. I was once a huge
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Welcome to the Contemporary Romance Writers’ Blog! * Contemporary Romance Writers (CRW) was formerly the Chick Lit Writers Chapter. Earlier this year, we had the opportunity reinvent the chapter. The membership decided to re-brand and expand our focus to Contemporary Romance and all the sub-genres that fall under it. The last few months have been
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