Hey, it’s been a while since I did a master list for writers! You love them, and I love them, too. So here’s a list of settings to help you in writing a cozy mystery novel! (Full disclosure: I’m an acquiring editor in the cozy mystery genre in my day job.) Sometimes the setting itself can inspire an intriguing plot
Author: Bryn Donovan
Hi, friends! As promised, here’s chapter three of The Equinox Stone , which you can order by clicking here (or read for free, if you have Kindle Unlimited!) If you’ve just stumbled onto this post and you don’t know what this is all about, this is my sequel to The Phoenix Codex . You can read Chapter One of this
Hey friends! Yesterday after I posted chapter one, I got an email asking about Michael’s sexuality (because he notices Nic is good-looking.) This is a male/female romance, and Michael West, the hero, is not completely straight. I haven’t read a lot of M/F romances with bisexual, pansexual, or not-quite-straight heroes, but I always imagined Michael’s sexuality like this. Other than
Hi, friends! Even in the midst of all the uncertainty, I’m still excited and proud about my upcoming new release, The Equinox Stone , the second book in a paranormal series. You can pre-order it for Kindle here! Because the preview on Amazon only shows you so much, I’m sharing the first three chapters of the book here on my
Hey friends! Last week, I shared a few of the worst romance tropes, in my opinion—but plenty of people love those tropes, so it wasn’t meant to be taken too seriously. This week, I’m sharing a list of romance cliches I love. Wait a minute, you might be saying. Aren’t cliches bad? Eh, not really. Readers can enjoy romantic tropes
It’s not surprising that I have an opinion about the worst romantic cliches. In my day job, I’m often thinking about sweet contemporary romance tropes, and as a recovering workaholic, I’m planning to read a lot more romance—all genres, especially historical and paranormal—on my own time again. However, it’s no more than that: a personal opinion. And because so much
I feel embarrassed writing about this, but if you can’t be honest in your blog, where can you be, right? I’ve always had some workaholic symptoms, like many writers with full-time jobs, and I’ve written about work/life balance before. But in the past almost-three years, I became a full-blown workaholic. Some people describe themselves this way as a brag. I