Author Archives: Racheline Maltese

Your mom read your teen lesbian romance and thinks it could be steamier… awkward or awesome?

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

Perhaps fortunately, Erin and I are starting to run out of Your mom! stories (although her mom totally just emailed her to ask about the BDSM project and implied it was like when Erin was really interested in elves, so … Continue reading →

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Romance @ Random: Penny Dreadful Episode 2 Recap

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

This week’s recap is up! Ethan drinks a lot, thus winning himself a new love interest; Vanessa is super creepy, but not nearly as creepy as Sir Malcolm; the ancient Egyptian apocalypse is coming; Frankenstein’s creature is still breaking my … Continue reading →

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Do the thing! Bite-sized pieces edition

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

As has been mentioned, I’ve been traveling a lot lately. Thankfully, I’ll be home Tuesday morning. Traveling is one of those things I am both very good at — I do it a lot and I haven’t gotten stranded or … Continue reading →

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Hop Against Homophobia & Transphobia — Show your favorite LGBTQ organizations some love

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

So Erin & I are participating in the Hop Against Homophobia and Transphobia (click on the image at left!), in honor of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. Say that three times fast. The blog hop is specifically for … Continue reading →

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Meeting the heroine when you’ve got two heroes

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

RWA’s NYC chapter is featuring interviews with members’ novel’s heroines on the blog this month. Next month, they’ll be interviewing the heroes. This, as you might imagine, causes a strange dilemma when you’re writing same-sex romance. Not that the chapter … Continue reading →

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Class announcement: Collaborative Writing

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

As we’ve mentioned before, Erin and I get a lot of questions about how this co-writing thing works. If you’re interested in the logistical and creative process of doing the co-author thing in the romance novel space, we’ll be teaching … Continue reading →

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TRS Staying Home Party — Win Stuff!

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

So there’s this cool romance novel focused website called The Romance Studio, and while many of our peers are off at the Romantic Times conference in New Orleans, they are hosting a Staying Home Party on their website. Basically, it’s … Continue reading →

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Romance @ Random

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

We’re have a lot of content coming at you this week here at Avian30, but I did just want to make a quick note that I am now also doing some pop-culture blogging for Random House’s pop-culture and romance site, … Continue reading →

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Starling sounds

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

Music is a pretty big part of Erin and I’s writing process.  Sometimes that music is about the rhythm we’re looking to create on the page.  Often, it’s about the way to understand our characters based on their tastes and … Continue reading →

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Sneak Peek Sunday: Demons

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

Welcome to the week two of our participation in Sneak Peek Sunday, a romance writer blog hop. Follow the link back to see what other authors are working on this week (please note that participating authors write in all genres … Continue reading →

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