The romance novel and representations of sexuality after #MeToo Kate Cuthbert, at the time still managing editor for Escape Publishing (and now at Writers Victoria) presented this on the first …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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RWA conference 2018
So I’m finally getting around to writing up my notes from this. I had a lot going on around the time of the conference so apologies for the delay. I …
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“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 …
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“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 …
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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 …
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Love in Outer Space: Science fiction romance — the ideal place to explore gender and love
Donna Hanson, University of Canberra Session 12.1: Love in Other Worlds Abstract: Science fiction romance disregards localities in time and space and extends ‘romancelandia’ beyond present human frontiers and cultural …
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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 …