genevieveturner The past few months I’ve let my writing fall by the wayside. I did finish a very rough first draft of my first novel, and I had every intention of revising it, but somehow, life got in the way. You know, kids, working two part time jobs, keeping up with the house, pregnancy #3, blah … Read more
I hope the exclamation point in the title of this convinces you that this is a happy post about finishing something, and not about me quitting this whole writing racket. You’d be forgiven for thinking the last based on how much I’ve been updating the blog lately. Which of course, is not at all. But … Read more
First off, I wrote a guest review of Kaki Warner’s Heartbreak Creek for The Good, the Bad, and the Unread. You can find it here. And go buy all of Kaki Warner’s books, right now. I’ll wait. I realize I’m not updating regularly like I should be, but I recently got a new job, so … Read more
To continue the story of my history with romance novels, I’ll regale you today with the tale of how I rediscovered romance in high school. In middle school, after my Harlequin binge petered out, I stopped reading romance. This was before the days of young adult romance, and times were tighter for my family then, … Read more
So, you know how I said before that I write slowly? Like, really slowly? Apparently, when I want to, I can write fast. For the past two weeks, I’ve been getting in at least 1k words a night. At about 1k words an hour. I got in 3k two nights in a row. That’s crazy. … Read more
As I wrote about in a previous post, my first romance read was a Harlequin, picked up from the grocery store when I was nine. Romance wise, I read only Harlequins until I was probably in middle school, when I stopped reading romance entirely. This was before the market for YA romances opened up, and … Read more
I have a confession to make: I’m a slow writer. Not just in the sense that the words do some slowly when I’m actually sitting in front of the computer, but also in the sense that I don’t get a lot of time to sit in front of the computer. “But, Gen,” you’re probably saying, … Read more
The devil’s in the details, or so they say. By details, I mean the background, the texture of the life that your characters are living. There seems to be two camps of opinion on how much history actually needs to be in a historical romance. One camp seems to feel that you can never have … Read more