When You’re Someone Else’s Job

As an author, at some point (unless you do absolutely everything yourself) you’ll be someone else’s job. At least, your manuscript, or your cover, or your e-book formatting, or your marketing plan, or… something of yours will be on someone...

Dude! Don’t Ever Quote Real Lyrics!

It’s tempting, right? When our characters are at a dance or a bar (or scooping ice cream from the tub with a sad iTunes playlist on heavy rotation), we can’t help but think of the songs that are playing for them… and sometimes those songs influence...
Red Herring Jealousy

Red Herring Jealousy

Three of the last five romance novels I’ve read have had jealousy as the major source of conflict that keeps the couple apart… and in all three cases, the jealousy was unfounded, a total red herring to create plot where there isn’t any. Obviously,...