fiction

  • How to Name a Fictional Location

    Different authors take different approaches to the settings of their historical romance. I generally prefer to invent fictional towns or villages so that I’m free to make up the details as needed. For example, “Castle Rock Cove” is loosely inspired… Continue reading

    How to Name a Fictional Location
  • The Twelve Days of Christmas 1

    I’m a mood reader, which means I usually prefer to read holiday romances near the relevant holiday. Like many romance readers, I’ve been reading a lot of Christmas romance lately. In my religious tradition, Christmas is an Octave rather than… Continue reading

  • Publishing with a Small Press, Part 3

    In the first post of this series, I talked about why writers might want to work with a small press rather than querying agents or self-publishing. In my second post, I wrote about the disadvantages of working with a small… Continue reading