#romance-fiction — Public Fediverse posts

Writing Between Cultures: Crafting Romance Through a Cuban-American Lens

Stephanie Hope elaborates on writing between cultures and how it impacted her process of crafting romance through a Cuban-American lens.
The post Writing Between Cultures: Crafting Romance Through a Cuban-American Lens appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/writing-between-cultures-crafting-romance-through-a-cuban-american-lens

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📚 The Poppy War by: R. F. Kuang

When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d fi...

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📚 House of Earth and Blood by: Sarah J. Maas

Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night-until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investi...

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📚 Quicksilver by: Callie Hart

Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate.

Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen’s reservoirs for as long as she can...

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📚 Brimstone by: Callie Hart

Duty. Blood. Honor. Power.
Saeris Fane doesn’t want power. The very last thing she needs is her name whispered on an entire court’s lips, but now that she’s been crowned queen of the Blood Court, she’s discovering that a queen’s life is not her own. A heavy weight rests upon her shoulders. Her...

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It’s a Bad Romance: How I Got Romance Wrong in My Crime Novel (And How I Fixed It)

Author Cate Quinn shares how she got romance wrong in her first crime novel and then how she got the romance in crime fiction right.
https://www.writersdigest.com/its-a-bad-romance-how-i-got-romance-wrong-in-my-crime-novel-and-how-i-fixed-it

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📚 A Court of Wings and Ruin by: Sarah J. Maas

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom no...

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Romance Drives Fiction Boom and Audiobooks Surge: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

Tis the season to celebrate audiobook growth, it seems. So what better way to mark the solstice—when the city is full of folk dancers and the countryside is full of all manner of people doing all manner of things to mark the…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/romance-drives-fiction-boom/

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https://wdldiamond.blog/2025/02/10/valentines-day/
Valentines Day - Short Stories, Romance -Free to Read on W.D.L Diamond Blog
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Daphne du Maurier’s 1941 Frenchman’s Creek can be described as a swashbuckling romance novel. Basically a bodice-ripper with some adventure and good suspense. If you like the sound of that combination you'll like it. It is insanely romantic.

My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2020/01/daphne-du-mauriers-frenchmans-creek.html

#adventure #adventurefiction #swashbucklers #swashbucklingadventure #swashbuckling #romance #romancefiction #romancenovel #romancenovels #DaphneduMaurier

So I have been #writing for a little while now, and trying to get myself to publish some stuff somewhere, mostly for accountability whilst I try and improve.

Well I finally did it today, so here is a link to my first short story on my new #substack Ten Minute Romance. It's a contemporary piece about an open house event meet-cute.

https://open.substack.com/pub/jennampink/p/george-from-the-coffee-shop?utm_source=direct&r=1micbk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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I had no idea that Peter O'Donnell, the creator and writer of the Modesty Blaise comics and novels, wrote a stack of gothic romance novels under the name Madeleine Brent. And won romance fiction awards for them!

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