Thursday, August 30, 2012

Ellora's Cave Anniversary Celebration

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One of my publishers, erotic romance specialist Ellora’s Cave, is celebrating its twelfth anniversary this fall. They’re spotlighting the wo...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

How To Use Theme In Writing Romance

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Since I'm about to leap into a series of posts on integrating two big writing skills, worldbuilding and theme, I'm listing here prev...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

What Do We Know and When Do We Know It?

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The expanded version of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover novel THE BLOODY SUN has one conspicuous difference up front from the original edit...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Dialogue Part 4 - The Legal-Weasel

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Part 3  of Dialogue is here: http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2012/03/dialogue-part-3-romance-erotica-vs-porn.html On the occasion...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

Review of "ALL SPELL BREAKS LOOSE" by Lisa Shearin

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You can't beat a bad goblin. Lisa Shearin is my only auto-buy author at the moment. That's the trouble with a good series. One ge...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Thoughts on WEST SIDE STORY

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Re-watching WEST SIDE STORY reminded me of how innocent, in a sense, the world of the movie seems, and not only because the music and choreo...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Worldbuilding With Fire And Ice Part 7: Paranormal Romance

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This blog entry is a direct sequel to last week's entry FINDING A GOOD PARANORMAL ROMANCE which was sparked by a twitter exchange. htt...
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Thursday, August 09, 2012

Rules for Fiction Writers

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A collection of story “rules” from Pixar: Pixar Story Rules Here are a few of my favorite tips from this list: #6: What is your charac...
Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Finding a Good Paranormal Romance

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And once more twitter friends spark a subject we need to cover in Alien Romance: I Retweeted this tweet from @dearauthor: JLichtenberg:...
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Thursday, August 02, 2012

The Laws of Fiction

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The great nineteenth-century Christian fantasy writer George MacDonald (author of THE PRINCESS AND THE GOBLIN and AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH W...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Targeting a Readership Part 5: Where is everybody?

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Targeting a Readership Part 4 is:   http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2012/06/targeting-readership-part-4.html Ran across a WIRED ar...
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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Don't Kill the Girl

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“Protecting the Girl” is the title of an article by Claudia Welch in the current issue of RWR (ROMANCE WRITERS REPORT, the magazine of the R...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

How To Learn To Write

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I've been mentoring an advanced student into the giant leap from novel-length story writing to novella. Yes, it's a giant chasm, a...