Raine Balkera - Romance Author

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...

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...

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. Romance Writer's Weekly also has a website  with a blog , where we spotlight, promote, and post interesting articles about writing via our members. We also issue a newsletter  and can be found on Facebook  and Twitter @LoveChatWrite. If you arrived here after having visited with  Carolyn Spear , I thank you. This week, Betty Bolte says - It's St . Patrick's Day ! and wants us to tell if and how we celebrate it, or how we'd like to. I don't celebrate the holidays. Any of them. Including my birthday, which also happens to fall on a major holiday. March 17th is a Feast Day in honor of St. Patrick, who wasn't Irish at all but Scottish. Born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in S...

Thank you for hopping over from J.J. Devine's post. Her novel, Into the Darkness , is available at Amazon. Vampires and Witches: Are they mythical creatures or something that walks amongst us every day without our knowledge?  To Raven, a twenty-five-year-old, extremely sheltered woman, they are nothing more than something to be read about in a book. To Dragon, an eight hundred-year-old vampire, they are a way of life.  Raven truly believes she is going mad. Erotic dreams fill her nights, causing her to question her sanity by the light of day. They lead her into a world she never knew existed and a heritage that can only be found in nightmares.  Dragon wants nothing more than to own the mortal soul of the beautiful Raven, a woman who can make his ancient scars disappear, proof that she is far from mortal.  Together they seek out the dark heritage of her past. What they find is much more than either of them bargained for. A destiny lies at her doors...

If you arrived here via Tracey Gee's blog, thank you kindly for hopping over to read my response to this week's blog hop question. Collette Cameron , who is currently offering an anthology that is just in time for Valentine's Day , titled Gifts From the Heart ,   wants to know - What quirky habits (superstitions, must haves, etc.) do we have while writing ?  If not being able to write anything at all without background music playing is considered to be quirky, then I'm guilty as charged. Actually, that one probably falls under the must-have category. Just as I am unable to fall asleep in a noisy environment or go potty in a public place, I  am   also unable to write without background music. The vocal-less, melodic, and sometimes even hypnotic genres that include artists like Darshan Ambient, Lanterna, Ishq, and Lemongrass, to name a few. Rarely have I ever caught myself delving into a WIP surrounded by dead air  – which isn't, ac...