Sentences with phrase «as romance readers»

I don't think mystery readers read as fast as romance readers, but I want to be in a position to release as many as six in the series next year if there's interest.

Flowers never did it for me as a romance reader.

As a romance reader, I want my heartfelt romance and HEA as much as the next girl, but I prefer mine on the side of snark, thank you very much.

Not exact matches

Wilson says he'll preserve Y2K News as a straight information technology magazine next year, and on his Web site he is already «romancing» readers to stay with him for the long haul.

Meet singles in your area for friendship, dating and romance, photo personals, instant messages, chat and As readers might be able to tell from my articles, I find online dating to be interesting both for its methodology and how it has transformed our culture.

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With the increasing use of the Internet as a way for people to communicate, online dating sites have The internet dating site brought to you by The Oldie magazine where you can meet like - minded Oldie readers, for friendship, flirtation or a full - blown romance.

(How tricky it is to find readers for romance novels, who are usually women, who can credibly and comfortably voice female romance protagonists and male romantic heroes as both are usually written is a fascinating side road I won't wander down today.)

The Hunger Games drags at times, is not particularly imaginative as much as it's campy, the romance part seems more perfunctory as touchy - feely love than steamy and any complexities in characters or angry revolutionary messages can't be drawn out on film like they were supposedly in the book (I'm not one of its 26 million readers, but I'll take the word of those who stated that was so in the book).

Romance doesn't have a lot of conventions, unlike SFF, (or at least it didn't — it's expanding too,) so it's not surprising Romantic Times got inundated, as romance has been at the forefront of e-books, self - pub romances, small press publication, shorter fiction publications (novellas & collections,) and author - reader interRomance doesn't have a lot of conventions, unlike SFF, (or at least it didn't — it's expanding too,) so it's not surprising Romantic Times got inundated, as romance has been at the forefront of e-books, self - pub romances, small press publication, shorter fiction publications (novellas & collections,) and author - reader interromance has been at the forefront of e-books, self - pub romances, small press publication, shorter fiction publications (novellas & collections,) and author - reader interaction.

Family Fiction magazine readers recently selected Wanda as their # 3 favorite Christian romance author!

Consider an eBook price cut: As mentioned earlier, there's an eager market for romance eBooks so entice readers with a deal.

Hidden Shadows is a Winner in the Fiction category of the 2016 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement award; Winner 2016 Global Ebook Awards, Popular Literature Fiction; Short - Listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accolades.

As I am a) a nerd / geek and b) a reader of romance, you may expect that WHY YES, I did in fact find this episode highly relevant to my interests!

For example, if your wrote a romance, readers can't find it unless you've categorized it as «romance» in the BISAC code.

Dear Author and Smart Bitches both run regular features on their sites highlighting books that have gone on sale for $ 2.99, $ 1.99, or $.99, because the romance genre in particular is full of readers that burn through so many titles that they are eager to snap up books for as cheaply as they can get them.

Trying to sell your historical romance as straight history will help you lose readers, not gain them.

For example, a romance novelist who wants to attract romance readers would employ a concentrated strategy, that is to say, this is a large population of readers — and we aren't segmenting them by saying we only want a small subset of those readers, no as a romance writer we want them all because we know our readers read cross sub-genre.

This should find readers beyond that audience, though, as it deals with quintessential topics such as romance, OCD, and parent - child relationships.

Instafreebie also offers their «acceleration» to the right readers — as in, once someone downloads a romance novel and yours is another one that's currently available, it might be advertised next.

Whether it's fan girling over Ada Lovelace by having her as a secondary character in Must Love Breeches, or outright geek references with geek types in her romantic comedy with paranormal elements, Beer and Groping in Las Vegas, or going all Southern steampunk in Steam Me Up, Rawley, she likes to have fun with her romances and hopes her readers do too.

OEL manga creators take some of the artistic and storytelling conventions of Japanese comics such as the big eyes, exaggerated action or sensitive romances to create stories from a Western point of view for English - language readers.

Abigail: As a reader of romance for the last 25 years (I started young, what can I say)-- one of the trends that I've found particularly interesting is the evolution of sex in romance.

I've talked about this with some other black female writers — as indie authors especially — with our suspicions that the majority of romance readers (non-black) will not pick up a book with a black woman on the cover, should we do it anyway and take the risk just to see ourselves on the cover?

And my social media channels do slant towards fellow techies as well as people who continue to be power readers in the digital realm, like romance readers.

2014 will involve fewer Russell Blake releases and more attention to each, with forays into romance and NA as RE Blake (following my own counsel to brand different genre offerings differently so Russell Blake fans don't mistakenly pick up an RE Blake «Lust on the Range» tome, or RE Blake readers don't buy an Assassin or JET book and go, «Where's the sex, and why is everyone getting killed?»)

Overdrive does have a number of major companies still supporting ebook lending such as; Random House, HarperCollins, John Wiley, Harlequin Romance, Kensington, Perseus, Sourcebooks, Scholastic, Chronicle, among others, and hundreds of their best - selling authors strongly support and are partnering with OverDrive to build stronger connections to library eBook readers.

But more importantly, well crafted romance titles that speak to a broad audience of readers also sells, as evidenced by imprints like Carina Press (Harlequin) and Ellora's Cave being digital - first pioneers while still maintaining standards of authorship.

Moreover, romance authors and publishers are finding new ways to reach their readers, as evidenced by new themes in the romance and erotica genres.

A bold, new phenomenon has taken place in publishing, arguably started by the indie authors who maintained strict control over their works and were free to publish as they chose, but also taken up by the romance genre within the traditional industry due to an abundance of readers who clamor for new content.

Verdict: 4 Stars A bold, new phenomenon has taken place in publishing, arguably started by the indie authors who maintained strict control over their works and were free to publish as they chose, but also taken up by the romance genre within the traditional industry due to an abundance of readers who clamor for new... [Read more...]

Whether this is a gimmicky attempt to lure readers or the wave of the future for digital publishing remains to be seen, but as always, this kind of innovation has a strong foundation with romance readers and the publishers who provide that content.

It is supported by its own library touted as the «YouTube» of eBooks where both amateur and professional writers can share content by uploading their published and unpublished works for readers to download, and there are tons of fiction short stories, fantasies, science fiction, romance, etc., that you won't find in Kindle or Nook sites.

However, readers and writers of romance novels recognize the word «Cocky», as a general word in the industry.

My chief aim and responsibility as a thriller author is, first and foremost, to entertain readers with a captivating story, filled with colorful characters, headlong action, nail - biting suspense, mystery, intrigue, and romance.

She opened the world of romance to us as readers.

I do know that some readers just think of them as contemporaries (the most popular romance category).

My other writings include book reviews (published in Fantasy magazine Black Gate, and SF Site), a handful of short stories (I'm a contributor to the Cast of Characters anthology edited by Lou Aronica), and a number of articles on writing and publishing that have appeared in venues such as Writer's Digest and Romance Readers Report.

And hands up if you've ever — as a writer or reader of romance — seen articles claiming that romance novels give women unrealistic expectations?

The true purpose of a platform is to create a community of like - minded readers — to find the people who like dystopian YA, or historical romances, or the paleo diet just as much as you, and then finding ways to help them.

And if you sell realistic women's fiction as romance, readers who don't get their HEA ending will be unhappy forever after.

An intelligent, deeply moving, and remarkably written portrait of a relationship that reads as a cross between a romance novel and a literary page turner, A Small Hotel is a masterful story that will remind readers once again why Robert Olen Butler has been called the «best living American writer» (Jeff Guinn, Fort Worth Star - Telegram).

The shift from straightforward young adult romance to a more intense story of intolerance and hatred may seem abrupt or even jarring to many readers, but in the end, this backdrop helps provide context for Maya's personal conflicts and illustrate how her particular struggles are both universal and also specific to her identity as a young American Muslim woman of Indian descent.

A contributor to the Romance section of Gale's What Do I Read Next, co-author of Voice of Youth Advocate's annual «Clueless: Adult Mysteries with Young Adult Appeal» column, a reviewer for Library Journal, and co-author of The Mystery Readers» Advisory: The Librarian's Clues to Murder and Mayhem (2001), Charles was named 2002 Librarian of the Year by the Romance Writers of America and names good chocolate and good books as two of the world's great pleasures.

And in this way, contemporary romances can be just as immersive as historicals — they may not take you to an entirely different world, but I hope readers will recognize their lives and themselves, their friends, families, lovers and pets in this story, and fall in love right along with Britt and J.T.

Roberts wrote an open letter to her readers, which was later published on romance fan site Heroes and Heartbreakers, explaining how she sees this new direction as a continuation of her interest in relationships and building immsersive worlds.

I've been a romance reader forever... and historicals were my first love as a reader, so it seemed natural that when I wrote my first book, it would be historical.

Old school romance and bodice rippers function as giant you - have - been - warned signs for readers venturing down the backlist of the genre.

As an avid reader myself, all those infinite possibilities for getting lost in «something else» is what I love most about books, and especially about romance fiction, which is so rich in variety and so strong in emotion.

As a longtime romance reader and fan, I've seen plenty of historical romance heroes with physical marks of struggle: scars, amputations, ill - healed injuries.