Writing Romance Novels and Love Stories: Professional Techniques for Fiction Authors (Writer's Craft)

Do you enjoy spinning tales of love? Do you like guiding characters past obstacles to meaningful relationships?

Do you want to become an author of Romance novels, enchanting readers in the biggest-selling genre? Or do you write in a different category, looking to infuse your plots with powerful love stories?

In this book, you’ll get insider knowledge from two experts. Cara Crescent and Rayne Hall are both experienced fiction authors with different specialisms. Cara specialises in writing for Genre Romance – especially in the sub-genres Paranormal and Science Fiction Romance – while Rayne pens fiction in other genres, mostly Gothic and Dark Fantasy, and weaves love stories into them.

Step by step, they’ll show you how to entice readers, grab their hearts and excite their passions. You’ll learn how to:

write witty, bantering dialogue

create a female lead who steps off the page, and a male lead with whom readers will fall in love

structure a Romance novel from a sparkling beginning to a meaningful happy ending

handle heat levels – from sweet and chaste to sexy and sizzling

submit your book to agents and publishers, or publish your own

The book covers:

The most popular plot tropes from ‘Pretend Relationship’ and ‘Friends to Lovers’ to ‘Secret Baby’

The specific needs of Gay, Menage and Harem Romance

The bestselling sub-genres, including Medical Romance and Paranormal Romance

Believable happy endings for Romance Novels and heart-wrenching endings for tragic tales

…and much more.

The authors guide you to keep your characters and readers chaste for Sweet Romance, how to write steamy action scenes for Erotic Romance, and how to build intense erotic tension without graphic details – and which of them is right for your book.

You can use this guide as a self-study course. Each chapter contains information, professional tips and cautions about novice mistakes to avoid, and concludes with an assignment, so you can put what you’ve learnt into practice.