Editor

Regency Travelers and Paterson’s Roads, by Researcher Franzeca Drouin

By Tracey Devlyn ⋅ September 9, 2011 ⋅ 36 comments

Happy Friday, RU Crew! Please help me welcome researcher and editor Franzeca Drouin to the campus. Franzeca’s research and editorial skills are much in demand by writers of all publication levels. I should know. She [...]

Ask An Editor: Understanding Submission Guidelines

By Kelsey Browning ⋅ February 25, 2011 ⋅ 37 comments

Welcome to Theresa Stevens’s monthly Ask an Editor blog! Theresa has some more great tips this month on how to work with submission guidelines. Welcome, Theresa! This month, we’re taking a question from the mailbag. [...]

Ask An Editor: Dos and Don’ts of Settings

By Tracey Devlyn ⋅ January 21, 2011 ⋅ 34 comments

Welcome to Theresa Stevens’s monthly Ask an Editor blog! Today, Theresa gives us the lowdown on settings. Very commonly, writers want to know what separates the publishable-but-ordinary book from the publishable-and-great one. The answer is [...]

Ask An Editor: Adding Emotion

By Carrie Spencer ⋅ December 17, 2010 ⋅ 34 comments

I heard an editor speak at a conference and she said the most important thing in a romance is “emotion, emotion, emotion.” I guess I understand that, but how do we know if we have [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ask An Editor: “The Meet” between Your Hero and Heroine

By Kelsey Browning ⋅ September 17, 2010 ⋅ 59 comments

RU crew, today Theresa Stevens is back with another great Ask an Editor lecture. Want to make sure the first meet between your H/H (hero and heroine) is on target? Then read on! A special [...]

Ask An Editor: Positioning Your Book

By AdrienneGiordano ⋅ August 20, 2010 ⋅ 42 comments

This month, we’re looking at a question that comes up frequently in the mailbag, though it takes many varied forms. The upshot: a writer is sitting on a completed manuscript. It belongs in a genre [...]

Wandering body parts, oh my!

By AdrienneGiordano ⋅ July 16, 2010 ⋅ 17 comments

Hi, I’m a romance author with my debut ready to go out sometime this year. However, the date has been pushed back because of my bad grammar. My publisher wants me to fix certain things [...]

Paranormal Romance – Hot? Not?

By Kelsey Browning ⋅ July 9, 2010 ⋅ 47 comments

Many of our readers have faithfully followed the first half of our yearlong series of lectures on different romance fiction sub-genres. Today, we’re excited to talk about a sub-genre that has seen an explosion of [...]