Romance is today’s most popular fiction genre, accounting for more than half of all mass market fiction sold. If you’re looking to make a serious effort at writing a romance and getting it published in today’s multifaceted markets, you need to learn as much as you can about this ...
On Amazon, if you price your book between $2.99 and $9.99, you receive 70 percent of the sales price. Cassandra priced her romance novel at $2.99, which means she earned roughly $2.09 for each book sold. For a first attempt, Cassandra was extremely successful and her book sold more than...
This leads to (after a bad evening) a bet: Gus, who writes Literary Fiction, will take on writing a Romance book, and January will write a Novel. In order to help facilitate this, they will take the other one on excursions as “research” (definitely not dates). The catch: ...
Writing a series has been eye-opening in many ways, but the biggest surprise is how fast the second and third books go. Well, went. This is just our second series, so stay tuned. The thing I’m realizing now, as we start Very Nice Funerals, is how this has shifted the romance plot...
It should not be missed by any aspiring romance writer, and has a lot to say to any fiction writer.by Leslie J Wainger
Have you ever read a romance novel and thought "I could do that!" The romance novel industry is worth more than $1 billion a year, and this is the perfect guide to getting in on the action. "Writing Romance" is packed with expert information on everything you need to know - from cr...
When I wasn’t sleeping, I watched The Idea of You with Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine; it was about a 40-year-old single mom who begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet. For breakfast on ...
That said, writing a romance novel in a genre as popular as this one does have its challenges. The competition is fierce, so we had to come up with a twist to keep things fresh, and that was where we came up with the creative ending that lets readers choose the fate of the character...
Are you interested in writing a romance?How would you like to write a well-structured kissing book? You can today. Told in conversational prose, Romancing the Beat reads like you are sitting down to coffee with romance editor and author Gwen Hayes while she explains story structure. You will...
In other words, a writer determines beforehand whether the genre is nonfiction, such as a self-help book, biography, or a book of history, or whether the book is in a fiction category, such as science fiction, fantasy, mystery, or romance. Sometimes, writers complete a collection of poems...