Can you write historically accurate Regency novels with ethnically diverse characters?
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Historic Romance writing tips
This brilliant article by Regency Romance novelist Elizabeth Rolls has some great tips for writing historical novels
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Why I’m on the fence about Bridgerton series 2
The multi-book Romance dilemma… how heroes get less ideal as a series progresses
Read MoreEscape by Rosalind Tate
“Escape” is the gripping sequel to time-travel mystery romance Stranded, with as many new questions as answers
Read MoreNew book: Paradise Calling
Paradise Calling, a new forbidden romance, is currently being serialised exclusively on Radish Fiction
Read MoreAcross the North Sea by Sofia Hahn
Across the North Sea is the first Viking romance I’ve read, and it was very intriguing. It’s actually a tale of two romances, featuring sisters who each fall in love with quite different men. Captured from their Frankish village, they are taken over the seas where they have to fend off unwelcome suitors and learn […]
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Should you include the hero’s POV?
Many readers today demand “dual POV” (point of view) – but how much should you get into the hero’s head? What are the pitfalls?
Read MoreWithout Any Amazement by Margaret Malcolm
Written in 1948, this is an arranged marriage between 17-year-old schoolgirl Jacynth and considerably older Jonathan Branksome. Jacynth isn’t reluctant at all, for what it’s worth, she seems to regard marriage as an exciting adventure. Which it possibly was for a schoolgirl in her era. “There’s the vicar,” she said breathlessly. “Grandmother told me that […]
Read MoreStorm Over Mandargi by Margaret Way
Australian-set romance between 22-year-old Toni and (older, but not specified) Damon Nyland, who owns the ranch Toni’s brother manages, among other assets. He lives elsewhere in some horrendous-sounding country McMansion. Toni is rude, immature, angry, stroppy – for no apparent reason at all. I could barely get past her first interaction with Damon who has […]
Read MoreMiss Columbine and Harley Quinn by Margery Hilton
It’s the seventies and all the clothes are nylon, tricel and “wincey” in various shades of orange and tangerine, and everything is just sooper! Everything except the bizarre romance between a hopelessly immature teenager, Shelley, who’s 17-going-on-12, and an oddly withdrawn and bloodless hero, Harley Quinn, 35. Shelley is so immature that that she doesn’t […]
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