It can be hard to keep the pacing tight in any novel, but imagine the pressure when writing suspense! This week, we interviewed Love Inspired Suspense author Kathleen Tailer. Today, we bring you a post from our archives on writing high-stakes, suspenseful romance. We asked some of our wonderful Harlequin Romantic Suspense and Harlequin Intrigue…
Category: Love Inspired Suspense
Interview with… Kathleen Tailer!
We are thrilled to have Kathleen Tailer with us today. She’s here to tell us about her new Love Inspired Suspense book and her writing process. Can you describe your writing process? When I first started writing, I wrote straight through the book from start to finish. Now that I’ve been doing this a bit…
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Which Series Are You? Part 2
If you’re interested in submitting to Harlequin as part of our #RomanceIncludesYou initiative, one of the first questions you might be asking yourself is…which romance series is my voice right for? We publish twelve different series, with 4-8 books per month within each individual series. Yesterday, we gave you a snapshot of six of our…
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Getting the Call: Meet Sharee Stover!
We are delighted to welcome debut Love Inspired Suspense author Sharee Stover with her story on Getting the Call! In her own words… I am a planner to the max. I’m the kind of person who buys the next year’s calendar the summer before. So, when I got THE CALL my planning went out the…
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Getting the Call: Meet Christa Sinclair!
We are delighted to welcome debut Love Inspired Suspense author Christa Sinclair with her story on Getting the Call! In her own words… August 10, 2017. I had been back to work as an educator for just over a week. That particular day we were on a different campus for professional development, with our employees…
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Getting the Call: Meet Kim Findlay!
This week we welcome debut Harlequin Heartwarming author Kim Findlay, with her story on Getting the Call! I was sitting at my desk, doing my regular job, when I got an email from Victoria Curran asking for my phone number. I’d submitted a revised manuscript from the Harlequin Heartwarming Submission Blitz about two months previously,…
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Getting the Call: Meet Tanya Stowe
We’re thrilled to welcome Tanya Stowe to Love Inspired Suspense! Read her inspiring story below: When my lovely editor, Shana Asaro, asked me if I would like to write a blog about THE CALL, I had to chuckle. You see, I think I’m pretty well-rounded with lots of challenging life experiences. I married my high school…
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Top 10 Reasons to Feature Pets in Romance
by Carly Silver, Assistant Editor for Harlequin Romantic Suspense If you know me, you know I love pets. Dogs are (hu)man’s best friend; cats are loyal, if occasionally incomprehensible, companions; and who doesn’t love an unusual tale of a rabbit becoming a human’s BFF? Pets make great additions to romance novels, as well – but…
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Getting the Call: Meet Liz Shoaf!
This week, we’re delighted to welcome new author Liz Shoaf to Love Inspired Suspense! Here is her story… I’ve loved reading romance and suspense since high school—I even won a writing contest during my junior year—but the idea to actually write a book took root when I lost three fingers in an accident. I stayed with…
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Getting the Call: Meet Angela Ruth Strong!
Harlequin is delighted to welcome author Angela Ruth Strong to the Love Inspired team. Here Angela shares her story about getting The Call! I entered two Harlequin Love Inspired contests before I won a contract. This wasn’t my first sale though. My debut novel, Love Finds You in Sun Valley, came out in 2010 with Summerside…