In this post from 2017, Harlequin Historical author Nicole Locke admits writer’s block is like taming wild animals and making pancakes. My family loves fluffy pancakes. Not me. The sheer amount of patience it takes to make them, and the mere seconds it takes for my family to devour them is not the kind of…
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Advice from the Archives: Tips from Tawny Weber and Jennifer Faye on Planning Your Novel
Summer is officially here (for many of us), and with summer comes loads of distractions! With patio drinks, holiday weekends and family BBQ’s filling up social calendars, it can create a pinch when when it comes to writing time and deadlines. In a recent post, Special Edition author Laurel Greer talks about goal setting and…
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What We’re Watching: Killing Eve
By Katie Gowrie Despite being late to the party, after hearing about this show from EVERYONE, I finally decided to get on it and watch the first season of Killing Eve. This show has a strong Canadian cast of heroines at the center of it. Sandra Oh plays the obsessive British intelligence officer Eve Polastri,…
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Harlequin Desire Chat: Joss Wood interviews Reese Ryan!
Harlequin Desire author Reese Ryan to aspiring authors: “Above all, keep writing. Keep trying.” Reese Ryan’s Seduced by Second Chances, out this month, marks the third instalment of Harlequin Desire’s continuity miniseries, Dynasties: Secrets of the A-List. Fellow Dynasties: SOTAL author Joss Wood caught up with Reese to discuss what made her serious about pursuing…
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Writing Challenge: What’s your heroine’s opening line?
If you’ve been reading our blog lately, you know we’ve been talking about strong openings and active heroines. It’s been a while since we’ve had a one-line challenge. Our last one highlighted bad boy heroes, and your opening lines were fantastic! Our challenge this week: What’s your active heroine’s opening line? She can be speaking…
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Advice from the Archives: 50 Shades of an Active Heroine
By Carly Silver Today we bring you a post from our Archives written by Carly Silver, Assistant Editor of Harlequin Romantic Suspense! Harlequin heroines are leading women worthy of stage, screen, and page. They range from vampire maidens to virgin brides, bad girls to businesswomen ruling the boardroom. That said, it’s not always easy to…
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Goal Setting with Harlequin Special Edition Author Laurel Greer
A little while ago, I was reading a post on the Harlequin Writing Community Facebook page, and one of the posters commented that she would never be able to reach the same monthly word-count target that someone else had set for herself. The writer with a smaller capacity sounded so defeated. I wanted to climb…
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Crafting Strong Openings
This is from our Advice from the Archives treasure trove, written in 1993 by Anne Canadeo and Mary-Theresa Hussey and addressed to editors (but very helpful for writers). As we encourage you to submit, we want to bring you helpful tips and encouragement. So let’s start at the very beginning and guide you toward creating…
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Interview with… Laurel Blount
We’re pleased to have Laurel Blount with us today. She’s here to tell us about her writing process and her July 2019 release! Can you describe your writing process? I really love people! So my initial story spark is almost always an interesting character. Once I have a strong sense of his or her personality,…
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Writing Challenge: Set the scene
“Setting can be another character. And just as with cardboard characters, a lack of setting will leave a story feeling one-dimensional.” – Patience Bloom, Senior Editor If you’ve been with us all week, you know that we’ve been talking about the importance of creating a vivid setting for your romance. Ready to give it a…