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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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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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Writing without Shame: WRWDC

Posted on May 14, 2014 by erincmcrae

As mentioned in the Do the Thing! post on Monday, while I do organization, because Racheline can’t, she does a lot of our marketing, because it’s still weird for me and talking to people is scary. Of course, that lovely … 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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Sneak Peek Sunday: Lake Effect

Posted on May 11, 2014 by erincmcrae

Welcome to week three 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 and at … Continue reading →

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Romancing the genre

Posted on May 3, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

Today I went to the NYC chapter of the Romance Writer’s of America‘s May brunch.  It was only my second RWA meeting since I joined, but it continued to confirm my sense of both the utility of the organization and … Continue reading →

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