My new workshop covers all of the underlying elements that contribute to readers’ sense of a strong, deep relationship so we can portray healthier romances.

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Romance Genre: How Can We Portray Healthy Relationships?

What makes someone a “real” writer or a “real” author? Let’s look at the question of what makes a writer “real” from a different perspective.

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What Makes a Writer a “Real” Author?

In the recent scandal known as #CopyPasteCris, Cristiane Serruya plagiarized a lot of books. We’re looking at how it happened and what (if anything) can be done to prevent it from happening again.

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What Can Authors and Readers Learn from #CopyPasteCris?

It’s often not easy to be a romance author, and the time around Valentine’s Day can be especially trying. A whole day (or week) focused on love and romance brings out all types of naysayers for the romance genre.

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Romance Love: Happy Valentine’s Day!

All of us start on the writing path from different places, but somewhere along our path, we realized an online writing community existed. The #cockygate issue reiterated for me just how important that community is for our career.

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Why We All Need a Writing Community

A crazy story erupted on social media with the hashtag #cockygate involving authors, Amazon KDP, and trademark law. One author is attempting to prevent others from using a word in their book titles, as she mistakenly thinks our book titles are our brands.

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Branding: The Right Way vs. the Wrong Way