Welcome back to my Tell-All Tuesday roundtable interview! It’s week 2 of Romance Writer’s Tell All, and I think we’d all like to know why romance as a genre has gotten such a bad rap! Q: Clearly romance and its sub-genres are hugely popular among fans and followers. But Romance is still getting a bad rap in some circles. Why do you think people feel uncomfortable accepting it (or admitting that they like to read it)? What is it about romance fiction that makes it such a targe

It's another Tell All Tuesday, and today I'm In the words of Emma Thompson in an interview about Last Chance Harvey in which she starred with Dustin Hoffman, “I want to see people who actually are actually believed to exist and who are…like me, falling in love who aren’t perfect, who aren’t so beautiful…but you don’t see love stories about that, you just see very beautiful people falling in love with each other and I’m just bored, bore witless, I don’t care, [and] I fear I’m

Where does love fit in when you're trying to overthrow the government? That is the leading question of Resist, the second book of the Resistance Series by my good friend, author Tracy Lawson. A few weeks ago, I had a chance to interview Tracy about the romantic element of her YA series. And ove As a fan of Tracy's work (I really enjoyed the foundation she set with book one, Counteract), I was thrilled to be thrown right into the action at the start, as Tommy, Careen, and a gr

TAT: A Vicious Confession For today’s Tell All Tuesday post, I’m making a confession about one of my favorite TV shows. I absolutely adore Vicious. Who wouldn’t, with a stellar cast like Ian McKellan, Derek Jacobi, Frances de la Tour, and Iwan Rheon? Season One was absolutely delicious. That hasn’t changed—much. Hear me out. I’m all for growth and change. When I first saw some of the teasers for the current season, and heard Gary Janetti’s remarks on some of the fresh ideas f

Tell All Tuesday is a new column dedicated to interviews with other authors. I recently talked with my good friend and fellow author Tracy Lawson about her Resistance Series. The second book in the series, Resist, was released on August 25th. While Tracy and I write in vastly different genres, I thought my readers might be interested in the romantic element in her Young Adult books. There's more to Tommy than his rugged blond good looks. He's seen some things in his life that