Research
Teaching English
Booksellers on Line
Other Romance Writers
Organizations
- Fog City Divas – Six writers, their works, winning secrets, contests and newsletter.
- Romance Writers of America, National
- San Francisco Area-Romance Writers of America Chapter
Web Sites About Romance
Bibliography of a few helpful books for writing romance:
- Benedict, Elizabeth. The Joy of Writing of Sex
- Browne, Renni and King, Dave. Self-Editing for Fiction Writers
- Brownstein, Rachel M. Becoming a Heroine
- Frey, James M. How to Write a Damn Good Novel
- Krentz, Jayne Ann, ed. Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women
- McKee, Robert. Story
- Moers, Ellen. Literary Women
- Newlove, Donald. First Paragraphs
- Weldon, Fay. Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
A few great reads in the romance genre:
- The Lion's Daughter, Lord of Scoundrels, The Sandalwood Princess—all by Loretta Chase. (Note how in Dain of Lord of Scoundrels, Ms. Chase has imagined fully the myths of boyhood later described in William Pollack's research, Real Boys.)
- The Outsider, Penelope Williamson. (An extraordinary heroine.)
- To Love and to Cherish, Patricia Gaffney. (For fans of Thomas Hardy who like a triumphant ending.)
- No Ordinary Princess, Pamela Morsi. (or any Morsi book!)
- I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith.
- For My Lady's Heart, Seize the Fire, Flowers from the Storm, Laura Kinsale. (Ms. Kinsale imagines the middleages and the Regency fully. Every line of For My Lady's Heart responds to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Only Ms. Kinsale is daring enough to give the hero of Flowers a stroke.)
- The Wives of Bowie Stone, Maggie Osborne (A sympathetic portrait of two flawed, but courageous women.)
- Heaven, Texas, Susan Elizabeth Phillips. (Laugh out loud.)
