Writing Career Strategies

Listen Up! Romance Audio Books Increase Author Profits with Jennifer Fedderson

By Robin Covington ⋅ April 12, 2012 ⋅ 33 comments

We are living in the beauitful age of options and authors have a mind-blogging buffet before them. Today we have Jennifer Fedderson of AudioLark Audio Books to tell you more about your options in the [...]

Shifting Your Social Media Perspective with Laura Kaye

By Robin Covington ⋅ April 10, 2012 ⋅ 33 comments

My first Laura Kaye book, HEARTS IN DARKNESS, made me want to get stuck in an elevator with a hot guy with tattoos! Now, she’s tackling classic gods and demigods in her new, HEARTS OF [...]

All You Need Are Words, Right? Wrong! by S.A. Garcia

By Robin Covington ⋅ December 28, 2011 ⋅ 19 comments

S.A. Garcia writes unique stories of M/M romance which span setting so a post-nuclear-apocolyptic world, fantasy realms of elven worlds and the life-after-death-experience. Today she is talking with us about what she has learned from [...]

Cut and Run: Signs it’s Time to Retire from the Contest Circuit by Kelsey Browning

By Kelsey Browning ⋅ August 5, 2011 ⋅ 63 comments

Those of us who write commercial fiction, especially romance, are fortunate so many organizations host writing contests. These contests offer many advantages: experience with proper manuscript formatting and synopsis development; mastery of submission fears; and [...]

Screams and Broken Trampolines with Tonya Kappes

By Jennifer Tanner ⋅ July 15, 2011 ⋅ 36 comments

We’re delighed to have Tonya Kappes, author of Carpe Bead ‘em and The Ladybug Jinx, on the RU campus today. Tonya’s offering us a peek into the glamorous life of an author and her writing process. Screams and [...]

Sara Megibow Sells Romance!

By Robin Covington ⋅ June 14, 2011 ⋅ 16 comments

Romance University is thrilled to announce that Sara Megibow, Associate Literary Agent at the Nelson Literary Agency, LLC, has joined us as a monthly columnist. On the second Wednesday of every month, she’ll be here [...]

Q & A with Author Heidi Betts

By Kelsey Browning ⋅ May 16, 2011 ⋅ 46 comments

As most of our readers know, RU is a big supporter of Brenda Novak’s Online Auction for the Cure of Diabetes. And in fact, our e-reader—winner’s choice—is up tomorrow, May 17, on a one-day auction! [...]

Seven Things An Author’s Website Must BE

By Becke Martin Davis ⋅ May 9, 2011 ⋅ 72 comments

We all know we’re “supposed” to have a website if we’re pursuing a career in publishing–but we’re not all sure exactly what we’re supposed to do with it! Today, JORDAN McCOLLUM explains how to apply [...]

The Art of Writing a Continuity by Allie Pleiter

By Tracey Devlyn ⋅ April 21, 2011 ⋅ 16 comments

Good morning RU! Please help me welcome back our friend Allie Pleiter. Allie’s going to chat with us about a topic we’ve never before covered at RU–series continuity. It’s a subject I’ve heard bandied about [...]

Holy Crap, I Won! with Ann Charles

By Carrie Spencer ⋅ April 15, 2011 ⋅ 22 comments

Welcome Ann Charles, author of Nearly Departed In Deadwood! Today, Ann talks to us about her win – the Daphne Du Maurier Award for Excellence! (and a little side nomination for the Golden Heart!) In [...]