Craft Of Writing

Janet Evanovich Speaks

By Carrie Spencer ⋅ December 15, 2010 ⋅ 22 comments

I recently tracked down Janet Evanovich and cornered her for a short interview. Janet is the inspiration for my finally deciding to become a writer, and I absolutely adore her books. Welcome Janet! Carrie Spencer: [...]

The Pros and Cons of Self Publishing

By Carrie Spencer ⋅ December 13, 2010 ⋅ 37 comments

Help me welcome author Lori Brighton to Romance University!! Today, Lori will enlighten us with her take on self-publishing. The covers, the money, the promotion. If you would have told me a year ago that [...]

Weekly Lecture Schedule for Dec 6-10: C.J. Redwine, Laurie London, Tawny Weber, Liz Talley

By Tracey Devlyn ⋅ December 5, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Congratulations to all the NaNoWriMo winners. And if you participated and didn’t quite hit that 50K mark, you still deserve a huge pat on the back for giving it a go. It’s not an easy [...]

Ask An Editor: Ordinary World

By Carrie Spencer ⋅ November 19, 2010 ⋅ 20 comments

This month instead of tackling a specific question in the mailbag, we’re going to do an FAQ post on “ordinary world,” which is probably the most confusing aspect of story structure for romance novelists. Why [...]

The Prolific Pen

By Carrie Spencer ⋅ November 15, 2010 ⋅ 20 comments

Please help me welcome Sandra Sookoo to Romance U today! Sandi is a foodie, a Disney nut and one of the most prolific writers I’ve ever seen. She writes romantic fiction, historical, sci-fi, and paranormal, [...]

Writing for Boys

By Kelsey Browning ⋅ October 29, 2010 ⋅ 15 comments

Today’s topic is different from any Anatomy of the Male Mind session we’ve hosted in the past. If you’re considering writing Young Adult (or even Middle Grade), you should read this lecture from top to [...]

Writing the Holiday Romance

By Carrie Spencer ⋅ October 22, 2010 ⋅ 15 comments

There’s nothing I love better than a holiday romance novel. Christmas, Valentine’s, even the upcoming Halloween inspires beautiful settings and hot romance. Join us today with Lisa Plumley as she discusses with RU how to [...]

High Concept and Learning to Write the Romance Novel

By Carrie Spencer ⋅ October 18, 2010 ⋅ 63 comments

Today we welcome Lori Wilde. I met Lori over a year ago, when I took her online class on Romance Writing Secrets, a beginners class to writing romance on http://www.ed2go.com. I learned a ton – [...]

Ask An Editor: Point of View Sliding Scale

By Kelsey Browning ⋅ October 15, 2010 ⋅ 16 comments

This month, we’ll consider a pair of questions on point of view (POV). If you wouldn’t mind, I would like some clarification on third person points of view and which one if any are good [...]

Give Yourself Permission To Write Crap, and Other Geeky Career Advice

By Tracey Devlyn ⋅ October 11, 2010 ⋅ 22 comments

Good Monday morning, RU Crew! Multi-published author Anna DeStefano joins us today to discuss how you can power through your need to write a perfect first draft. I first heard Anna discuss this technique while [...]