Tag: romance novels
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In the News: Romance Novels, Thor, Queer Sci-Fi and more…
Imagining More: Women Writing Worlds in Crisis (Literary Hub) Like all speculative writers, I was also asking myself: “What if?” What if I toyed with reality? What if I altered our actual timeline, flooding the coastlines in 2017 and sending my characters into one of the submerged cities? What if I gave my characters children […]
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Self-publishing success stories and more!
LJ Ross: The self-published crime writer making a killing (BBC) Since 2015, Louise has written 18 books in the DCI Ryan series, four novels chronicling the exploits of forensic psychologist Dr Alexander Gregory, a short story anthology and the Cornish cove crime thriller. For the previous 10 years, she had been a financial services lawyer […]
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Meet RomanticAdrienne, author of Against All Odds
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I began writing twenty years ago during high school. The first book that I just published is a contemporary romance. I considered myself a writer when I put the first words into that book. Why did you choose to write in your particular field or genre? I […]
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Stolen Grace by Patricia M. Muhammad
Penelope Moreau is a Creole courtier in 18th century Versailles, France. She searches frantically for a paper containing a clue as to who actually committed the royal theft. Once this is proven, the evidence would refute her brother’s, Armand’s, alleged complicity in the crime. Pierre LeMercier is also an aristocrat of the king’s court and […]
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Patricia M. Muhammad, author of The Speakeasy Murders
When did you first consider yourself a writer? I first considered myself a writer when I wrote and published my academic research papers in widely known periodicals. What have you written so far? I have written 19 novels in multiple genres: science-fiction/fantasy, contemporary romance crossover, mystery/detective and historical romance. Do you work to an outline or […]
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The Speakeasy Murders by Patricia M. Muhammad
It is the roaring ’20s in Chicago. The federal government enacts the Volstead Act. This does not stop the activities of the underground world, both in the colored and white side of town. Helen Williams is an astute, but bashful upper-class colored detective who wields her heirloom magnifying glass more than she brandishes a gun. […]
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Afrofuturism, Black Historical Romance, and more…
Page refresh: how the internet is transforming the novel (The Guardian) Towards the end of 2020, a year spent supine on my sofa consuming endless internet like a force-fed goose, I managed to finish a beautifully written debut novel: Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson, which comes out next month. And yet despite the entrancing descriptions, I could […]
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Pandemic Lit, Central Park Birder Releases New Graphic Novel…
Reckoning with climate change in fiction (Fulton Sun) Climate fiction is literature, short stories, prose and poetry that take a serious look at climate change. “If you’re a big book nerd like me, you can look as far back as the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh to see narratives about people who are wrestling with large […]
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Pandemic Novels, JK Rowling’s Sales Plunge, and more…
Naomi Alderman Was Writing a Pandemic Novel Before the Pandemic Hit (New York Times) For two years, Naomi Alderman, the author of the 2017 dystopian novel “The Power,” had been working on her next book. Then in February, with 40,000 words already written, she decided she had to stop. The story she had devised, about […]
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Fan-Fiction at the Hugo Awards and more…
In China, science fiction enjoys an efflorescence (The Hindu) Ironically, it is science fiction — a genre that is often dismissed as the plaything of nerds, geeks, and social misfits — that has actively imagined the consequences of technological changes. For the adherents of realism, or ‘serious literature’, science fiction is the literary equivalent of […]
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