Author: leoniemack

I’ve been letting my latest project lie for over a week. It was becoming too much of a struggle. My writing suffers when it’s not flowing, so I needed to let it stew for a while. Then yesterday an idea for the resolution scene started taking shape. I had no time to sit and write…

It’s a familiar disappointment. You stumble upon a romance that actually has two complex, yet sympathetic characters, flowing dialogue, a racing plot and chemistry popping sparks out of the Kindle. And then… Halfway through the book they’re already in love and you know the rest of the book is going to be a series of…

Getting the characters’ internal dialogue right is one of the finer balancing acts in a romance. I fall into the trap of over-explaining their thoughts and feelings, which is not only boring, but it takes the tension out of the scene. The power of books is that the reader is not a passive consumer. The…

I am deep in the land of romantic suspense at the moment with my main WIP. And it’s got me thinking about romantic suspense novels I’ve read in the past, which I could plot on a graph with two axes – one for the quality of the romance, one for the success of the suspense.…