by Joanne Rock
When people ask me where I get the inspiration for the books I write, I usually have a hard time answering succinctly since the truth is—usually—that the inspiration comes from everywhere. I key into an overheard conversation and glean some enticing tidbit for a bit of character backstory. Or I watch a […]

by Lydia Joyce
The idea for SHADOWS OF THE NIGHT came from the thought that not every “society marriage” should be condemned as pointless in romance merely because it was undertaken for less-than-romantically-admirable reasons.
Romance very often idolizes the heroine who will settle for no less than true love in a marriage, and it discards the social […]

by HelenKay Dimon
I love movies. The more things blow-up, the more car chases and intrigue, the happier I am. As a romance author, I know my first movie love should be chick flicks. Not me. Sorry. Those storylines hold my attention in books - love ‘em in books - but […]

by Stephanie Tyler
Beyond His Control is part of my Navy SEAL series for Harlequin Blaze – all my books are stand-alones, but they revolve around the same SEAL Team.
I remember my editor telling me that she liked the way I showed the SEALs doing SEAL things…she said that many authors make the mistake of thinking […]

Recently on my personal blog, I shared the creative process I had gone through for Tess Autrey’s story. Tess is the heroine of UNBROKEN, my novella in the anthology TEX APPEAL. Though in every version she ended up with Wyatt Crowe, the plots morphed and changed and evolved over time. What makes […]

by Bronwyn Jameson
In The Beginning
It all started in a Reno hotel suite at the 2005 RWA conference, when Silhouette Desire’s senior editor Melissa Jeglinski (MJ) told the gathered authors that she’d love to see some author-led continuity. Something like the family-based series which have been so successful for the line…only different.
I was instantly enamored. […]

Or How I Created Taming Mariella
by Dara Girard
Take one controversial plot…say The Taming of the Shrew and one headstrong heroine…say Jane Austen’s Emma and make her an ex-model turned photographer forced to work with an arrogant magazine owner, who happens to hate models—ex or otherwise—, and you have Taming Mariella. I hadn’t meant to […]