Kelly Hunter is an Australian author who is a USA Today bestselling author, a three-time Romance Writers of America RITA finalist and loves writing to the short contemporary romance form. …
Tag: writing structure
Categories life and stuffliterature stuffwriting stuff
Ross Grayson Bell – Writing for a Screenplay versus a Novel (pt 3)
The Hero’s Journey One way of telling a story. Stage 1 – The Ordinary World Stage 2 – Call to adventure What is the call to adventure? What new force …
Categories literature stuffwriting stuff
Ross Grayson Bell – Writing for a Screenplay versus a Novel (pt 2)
7 ways to engage an audience 1. Premise Your point of view and how to live it. Eg romance writers have a perspective on love Eg in Fight Club, the …
Categories literature stuffwriting stuff
Friday workshop: Ross Grayson Bell – Writing for a Screenplay versus a Novel (pt 1)
Ross Grayson Bell is a screenwriter, producer and story consultant with over twenty-five years of international experience in story development and film production. Having started as a creative executive for …
Categories literature stuffwriting stuff
“Basically Quite Weird”: The Queer Medievalist Virtual Romance of Alexis Hall’s Looking for Group
Kristin Noone (Irvine Valley College) Session 12.4: Love in Other Worlds Abstract: In a recent blog post, award-winning romance author Alexis Hall comments that “something we’re grappling with as twenty-first …
Categories literature stuffwriting stuff
“Outlander’s Tactile Caress: a Multisensory Romance”
Athena Bellas (University of Melbourne) Session 12.3: Love in Other Worlds Abstract: Much of the existing literature on television series Outlander (STARZ 2014– ) emphasises its prioritisation of a female …
Categories writing stuff
Representations of Otherness in Paranormal Romance: Nalini Singh and J.R. Ward
María T. Ramos-García (South Dakota State University) Session 12.2: Love in Other Worlds Abstract: There is currently a very heated debate in progress regarding diversity in the romance novel in …
Categories writing stuff
Love is (Color) Blind: Race, Belonging, and Nation in 21st Century Historical Romance Fiction
Mallory Jagodzinski (Indiana University South Bend) Session 11.2: Subversions of Race, Culture and History Abstract: This paper incorporates the space and place theme of IASPR 2018 by examining how three …
Categories writing stuff
‘You stayed’: Love, law and the reservation in Jenna Kernan’s Apache Protectors series
Johanna Hoorenman (Utrecht University) Session 11.3: Subversions of Race, Culture and History Abstract: Native American themed romance has long been one of the most popular subgenres of popular romance. For …
Categories writing stuff
The Wild Heart of the Continent: Love and Place in Sherry Thomas’s Silk Road Romance Novels
Eric Murphy Selinger (DePaul University) Session 11.1: Subversions of Race, Culture and History Abstract: Chinese-American novelist Sherry Thomas sets two acclaimed books in the Silk Road regions of Central Asia: …