Writing Hot Love Scenes
Posted on Friday, February 12th, 2010 by Kelsey Browning
Today, we’re thrilled to have Nicole North join us to talk about a subject dear (okay, VERY dear) to my heart—writing hotter-than-August-in-Hades love scenes.
continue readingAsk An Editor: Problem With Tense?
Posted on Friday, January 15th, 2010 by Tracey Devlyn
This month, for something different, we’re going to examine a paragraph sent in by a reader. She recently received some feedback which complained about the verb tenses in this paragraph.
Her dark gaze darted from [...]
Ask an Editor: Passive and Literary Writing
Posted on Friday, November 27th, 2009 by Kelsey Browning
Theresa:
Your last column on writing actively brought up a question I’ve had for quite some time on passive voice writing. In commercial genre fiction (romance, mystery, etc), the practice of writing in an active voice [...]
Ask an Editor: Delivering Bad News to a Writer
Posted on Friday, September 18th, 2009 by Kelsey Browning
It can be difficult to deliver bad news to a writer, but sometimes, it’s the kindest thing you can do. No author would want to spend a year or more completing a manuscript only to learn that her plot is a near-perfect duplicate of an existing published novel.
continue readingAsk an Editor: Two Types of Action
Posted on Friday, August 28th, 2009 by Kelsey Browning
One area I seem to have problems with is passive writing. I have to work to make my first draft more active, and it takes too much time! I’d like to be able to write, not just the exciting, action scenes, but the rest of the story without being passive.
continue readingAsk an Editor: Backstory and Pacing
Posted on Friday, July 24th, 2009 by Kelsey Browning
Adrienne, Tracey and I are delighted to welcome Theresa Stevens, Managing Editor at Red Sage, back to Romance University as a regular columnist. Each month, Theresa will choose a question submitted by one of our [...]
continue readingThis just in…
Posted on Thursday, June 4th, 2009 by Tracey Devlyn
Happy 15th Anniversary Red Sage!
Visionaries. Risk-takers. Just plain wild.
These are some of the words reviewers have used to describe Red Sage authors, the Secrets anthologies, and the Red Sage Presents line of e-books. Featuring best-selling [...]
Got Backstory? What Do You Do With It?
Posted on Friday, May 22nd, 2009 by Tracey Devlyn
Please join me in welcoming Theresa Stevens, Managing Editor at Red Sage Publishing, to RU! Theresa has generously agreed to pop in a few times during the day to answer some of your questions.
You’ve [...]
