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
Author: Bryn Donovan
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
Hey friends! It’s spring (or almost), and it’s time for WIP Wednesday! WIP Wednesday is the first Wednesday of every month. That’s when I post a little of a work in progress and invite you to do the same in the comments section below. If you’ve thought about sharing, but you haven’t yet, go for it! We’re nice. We don’t
Hey friends! As I’m writing this, the next #PitMad event is this week. (You can find upcoming dates here at the Pitch Wars website.) What is PitMad? It’s one of the Twitter pitch contests where you can pitch your novel in one tweet. If an editor or agent likes your tweet, it means they’d like to see the novel. These
Hey, friends! As some of you know, I am currently working on book three in my series KNIGHTS OF MANUS SANCTI. It’s going really fast. If all goes well, I might have it out this year! We’ll see! Book two comes out on March 24. It’s a supernatural, emotional, and cinematic book that’s an amnesia romance with a plus-size heroine.
Hi, friends! It’s the first Wednesday of the month—WIP Wednesday, when I share a snippet of something I’m working on and invite you to do the same in the comments section. I’m at the Hollywood Burbank airport, posting this fast before I get on a plane to New York, so please forgive any typos. I’ll be slow in responding to