I wasn’t really looking forward to When Words Collide this year. It had nothing to do with the conference. My life has just been a bit of a crazy schmozzle of ridiculous-ness lately. Turns out, WWC 2015 was exactly what I needed to pull me out of my writing funk and get me reengaged. I […]
I had the complete pleasure to sit on the Trends in Romance panel at When Words Collide this past August. When approached to sit on the panel, my reactions went sort of like this: (more…)
WARNING: This post might venture into rant-territory. I try to keep my official rants few and far between, but I’m fired up! So… I’ve now been to a few writers’ conferences and I’m noticing an irritating theme. In a community where we each struggle with the process of writing our books, screenplays, poems, etc. there […]
I’m about to admit something shameful. For quite a while, I honestly believed that there was no point in reading outside me “preferred” genre. Breathe, Victoria. Breathe. Okay, I said it. Wasn’t that awful of me? I know it was. I’m a horrible human being. It’s true though. I thought, hey, there’s a million and […]
Before I went to the Surrey International Writers’ Conference in 2013, I had never heard of the new adult genre. YA – check. Romance – check. Historical, paranormal, fantasy, steampunk (all in one novel?) – check. New adult was described to me, and Wikipedia et al have since confirmed it, as the 18-25 year old […]
When I joined onto the Fiction Addiction blog tour for A Moral Dilemma I was feeling the itch to read some good chick lit. I was not disappointed. A Moral Dilemma, by Zara Kingsley, centres around Rebecca Hardy, a beautician at a boutique beauty salon in London. Becky has just dumped her cheating boyfriend, leaving her the sole […]