Author: festivalforromance

I’ve been bringing my werewolf romance novel to a weekly writing group. Young adjuncts, stay-at-home mom’s, science professors, and recent retirees make up just some of the members, writing everything from religious poetry to YA to thriller. They’re smart people with valuable feedback, but none of them write or read my genre. So there’s been…

He left town on a Saturday morning, three weeks ago. That afternoon I sat down to write the grand love scene: in which the fated werewolf mates claim each other forever and ever. I was sad but had accepted the end of the relationship, and I was ready to get to work. But I couldn’t…

Originally posted on Miss Gret:
Many people are allergic to cliche stories; however, most of the time all we get are cliche stories. This is especially true with romance—a good girl falling hopelessly in love with a bad boy, a rich man falling for a poor woman,  a billionaire and his secretary, a gangster—don’t make me start…