Raine Balkera - Romance Author

It's Tuesday again, and that means another fun and informative blog hop involving Romance Novelists and the questions asked of their craft. Thank you for hopping on over after a visit to  Patti Fiala . This week, Xio Axelrod poses the following: Readers always ask "How much of yourself do you lend to your characters?" Here's your chance to answer. What traits do your characters have that come from you? And if not you, someone in your life. This is another great question, and I hope my answer is just as great while also being informative yet succinct. A little. I should probably expound just a little, too. As for me personally, not much of myself goes into my fictional characters. Well, it is true that I'm involved when it comes to things such as likes, dislikes, preferences, and hobbies. I'm very particular about certain things, and my characters tend to be that way, too. But, I don't like that it does and work hard to elimin...

Thank you for hopping over from Carolyn Spear . This week, Veronica Forand wants us to do some Flash Fiction - 100 words - using spring, coffee, and lizard. Way Back When . . . It seems like only yesterday that I traveled out west for high school Senior Break. Dad had arranged that trip, but I had wanted to do what everyone else did: head down to Daytona Beach. Lake Havasu was cool. The London Bridge was there, and I'd liked to have walked across it, except that if my Aunt Anne asked and I said yes, then it meant no. I saw my first lizard while I was there. Lots of them, actually, along with a few road runners that didn't resemble the cartoon depiction whatsoever. We drove to Long Beach via the desert, and in spring it was a sight to behold. Along the way, we stopped at an honest-to-gosh roadside cafe with tumbleweed, cactus, and medieval gas pumps outside. Not being a coffee drinker, I opted for a can of Coke to get me through the last few hundred miles ...

Romance Writer's Weekly (RWW) has a website  with its own blog , and a newsletter . There is also a  Facebook  page, and the Twitter handle is @LoveChatWrite . I hope you've arrived here after having visited with Mishka Jenkins . An author buddy whom I met approximately two years ago, Mishka graciously introduced me to RWW and an even larger group of like-minded, helpful, friendly, and fun romance authors. I am forever in her debt as a result. One of Mishka's novels, The Magic Spark , is available on Kindle here . Successful businesswoman Alex is content with her life in London, and any ideas of romance have been left on the back burner. But when her fairy godmother, FG, waltzes into her office one morning announcing she has come to help Alex rekindle a passion for life and love, she is about to check herself into therapy! The fairy godmother’s incessant wand-flicking soon lands them in the isolation of the Scottish highlands, where Alex’s next client, Mal Ros...

Hello, and welcome to another Tuesday Blog Hop via our host, Romance Writer's Weekly . I hope you arrived here after having visited with Dani Jace . This week I'd like to feature her published work,  White Doe [shapeshifter romance / romantic suspense]. which is on sale for only .99c on  Amazon . Hawk shifter, and bad-boy biker, Shane Cheveyo has spent years trying to outride his secret life and erotic memories of his first love who left without a word. When his great-grandfather, the legendary chieftain of their tribe passes to his next life, Cheyenne is drawn back home to the Outer Banks of North Carolinaout of respect for her heritage. Rekindled passion reveals their true nature, but will the magic of the white doe save them or separate their destinies forever? This week's question comes to us from Elizabeth Janette , who's novel Redemption for Liars is also available on Amazon  and in publication through Soul Mate Publishing. Welcome to Hill'...