Raine Balkera - Romance Author

Every Tuesday, members of  RWW  get together for a blog hop. We are a terrific support group for fellow Romance Authors and love to share our experiences, and we give/receive help with our writing dilemmas. HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIM HANDYSIDES ! I hope you arrived here after having visited with Veronica Forand .    This week, Tracey Gee poses the following: As we all know, authors put real people and situations into their books. Let's look at the times we've pushed through the pain by putting bad experiences or relationships into our works whether for therapy, or just as a way to close the door. The minute I read this week's question, it immediately struck me that yes, I do, in fact, inject bits and pieces of me into my characters! (long, silent pause in shamed reflection) (then laughs like an idiot at self)   = ) ) I do lean on my past horrors even when I don't want to -- injecting my own pain, suffering, and sadness into my charac...

Every Tuesday, the members of Romance Writer's Weekly (RWW) get together for a blog hop. We are a terrific support group for fellow Romance Authors and love to share our experiences, give and receive help with our writing dilemmas, and promote one another's work. Let me just say I CANNOT BELIEVE that today is the last day of June, 2015. And then, I'd like to self-promote for a sec. ***I'm in the final stages of edit/proof of my second novel that I've decided to title LOVE OVER TIME , with a cover purchased and ready to be revealed. The only thing standing between me and upload mode are these edits, which are turning into nightmare rewrite sessions. It is time I just stopped editing altogether, before the story turns into something completely different.*** And now, on with the hop. I hope you arrived here after having visited with our prolific  Jami Denise  - who loves to incorporate the sexy bad-boy in her novels. I also hope that you took t...

Welcome back to another Tuesday blog hop courtesy of Romance Writers Weekly . Every Tuesday, members of RWW get together for a blog hop. We are a terrific support group for fellow Romance Authors and love to share our experiences, give and receive help with our writing dilemmas, and promote one another's work. I hope you made your way here after visiting with Susan Scott Shelley  , and as always, I thank you for hopping in to read my response. This week, Susan asks: You've been gifted with a super power. Which would you choose? Why? This is going to be fun. And, selfishly, I'd like to possess quite a few super-natural abilities! Fountain of Youth Owner Time Traveler Extraordinaire Fastest Woman on Earth But, after more thoughtful consideration, I've decided that to be gifted with just one super power would mean that I choose to be a bona fide and honest-to-goodness WITCH , Elizabeth Montgomery in Bewitched . . . c...

Every Tuesday, the members of Romance Writer's Weekly (RWW) get together for a blog hop. We are a terrific support group for fellow Romance Authors and love to share our experiences, give and receive help with our writing dilemmas, and promote one another's work. Hello, and thank you for hopping over after visiting with  Gay Kiser  (writing as Tessa Gray). This week, Ronnie Allen poses the question for us. But, today is also her birthday! Which she says is Perfect to celebrate here. (Happy Birthday, Ronnie!) She's likely celebrating a birthday AND the release of her latest Sign Behind the Crime Series novel, Gemini . And the topic:  What is the theme in your novels, recurring or in one, that sends a message about an issue in society to help people? Was it developed by you intentionally, or did it evolve through the characters and plot? While attending College the second time around, I took a class that focused on social issues in literature. It was on...

Hello, there! Thank you for hopping over from Brenda Margriet's blog. This week on the hop,  Fiona Riplee wants us to write a flash fiction of 250 words or less about a long-lost love , and we're supposed to include the words hammer , chisel , and coping saw . DESPAIR FOR A LOST LOVE by FABRYKING61 ********** Back in the day, when you were the IT dude on campus, you stole my heart without ever, even knowing it. You, the all-star tight end, and ah, what a fine tight end it was, too. You, the home run king, touching them bases with ease, grace, and skill, just as you'd done with the girls, hammering home the fact that it was with everyone but me. You, b-ball Jones, running everywhere but toward me, and giving me yet another reason to continue to Jones for you. You, track & field star in them sexy, white silk shorts that made your long, chisled legs seem even longer, and that oh, so tight tank top in red; our schools colors, ...

Hello, again! I hope you made it here via Veronica Forand 's blog. If not, please go on back and read her responses. It's okay. I'll be here when you get back :D It's been awhile since I joined in the weekly hop. First, I lost my freelance job. Very disappointed, sad, depressed, etc. AND, my novel sales tanked as well. I haven't had a single sale since February. I know it is my fault, though. I really, truly stink at marketing myself, and I got tired of posting it to the Facebook pages I've joined since it doesn't tend to help or generate any interest, much less sales. I honestly don't know what to do at this point, so I've stopped thinking altogether :D When bad goes to worse, I tend to avoid all things online because selfish me can't stand to read all the success, lovey-dovey, hurray-for-me news that is posted. Just makes my life that much more difficult to bear. I know. Shame on me. I know! Second, and on a much more po...

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; Reprint edition (March 3, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0312351658 ISBN-13: 978-0312351656 Amazon: Link Excerpt: Link Lisa's Homepage: Link Blurb His name is Hardy Cates. He's a self-made millionaire who comes from the wrong side of the tracks. He's made enemies in the rough-and-tumble ride to the top of Houston's oil industry. He's got hot blood in his veins. And vengeance on his mind. She's Haven Travis. Despite her family's money, she refuses to set out on the path they've chosen for her. But when Haven marries a man her family disapproves of, her life is set on a new and dangerous course. Review It's about a girl from Texas-oil wealth who bucks the family-value trends to go it on her own and ends up making a huge, life-altering mistake. When she returns home with her proverbial tail between her shaken legs, she's not the same woman anymore but never forgot that incredibl...

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...