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Researching Elements of Paranormal Romance Novels

As a paranormal romance author, or author of any genre really, how do you research what’s primarily in your head? Especially if you’ve ventured into a setting in the future? For me, I turned my research efforts to the past. Odd, maybe, but then again when I was working on Justice Incarnate, the first paranormal…

Labels and Elements of Paranormal Romance Novels

Whether you’ve written or read a great book, when you tell people about it, they often want a reference point: Some key information to know where to find the book or if it matches their taste in reading. So how do you decide where a book fits – on a bookshelf or in the infinite…

Non-Fiction Recommendations From A Paranormal Romance Author, part 4

In this final installment of my recent wanderings through the non-fiction ‘shelves’, I’ll wrap with a fascinating and amazing book about writing: The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass. This is hardly Maass’ first book on the craft of writing, but if you write fiction it’s definitely one you’ll want to add to your reference…