How to Write Romances (Genre Writing Series)

Rating:
Summary: Excellent!
Review: A must for anyone who wants to write a romance book. Mrs.Pianka does an superb job in her step by step process of how to begin your novel. And the character description sheets are ideal for sketching out your characters. This book is exactly what the aspiring romance novelist needs.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent!
Review: A must for anyone who wants to write a romance book. Mrs.Pianka does an superb job in her step by step process of how to begin your novel. And the character description sheets are ideal for sketching out your characters. This book is exactly what the aspiring romance novelist needs.

Rating:
Summary: The Darkest Stranger
Review: The Reverend chuckled. He barely recognized himself. Just a week (a week? It seemed like a year!) ago, he had been sure that he would never read a romance novel again, that he would resist the wild siren song of his hormones and remain a monument to wasted good looks for the Republic. Any passion he felt was directed towards his spirit quest: to write political pamphlets and thereby bring about Utopia. One week, and all that changed.
He cuddled the love of his life, "How to Write Romances", the brilliant tour de force that had transformed the Amis de l'ABC with it's quicksilver presence. "Oh, my little croissant!" he murmured softly. "Even that demmed elusive Pimpernel could not keep me from you. A love like ours is stronger than both of us." He smiled, and made a mental note to brag about this to Courfeyrac.
He was now on the noble path of writing his first romance novel.
Walt Whitman was spinning in his grave.

Rating:
Summary: Encouraging and Great for Aspiring Novelists
Review: This book has really calmed a lot of fears that I had when I began writing. Pianka is very thorough but not overbearing in her explanations on how to create compelling romance. She includes great advice from well known romance writers such as Nora Roberts and Jo Beverley. I have the highest regards for many of the people who she interviewed.

She makes learning fun and enjoyable. There are many humorous antecedotes that made me laugh. And I enjoyed reading some of the things editors had to say as well. She also kept me grounded with her advice that the process can be hard and there is a lot of competition. But she's very encouraging and uplifting with her advice that there's lots of unexplored plots, characters and ground to be discovered in romance fiction.

Fast Flowing... this book really helps to get you focused and serious about writing.

Rating:
Summary: Encouraging and Great for Aspiring Novelists
Review: This book has really calmed a lot of fears that I had when I began writing. Pianka is very thorough but not overbearing in her explanations on how to create compelling romance. She includes great advice from well known romance writers such as Nora Roberts and Jo Beverley. I have the highest regards for many of the people who she interviewed.

She makes learning fun and enjoyable. There are many humorous antecedotes that made me laugh. And I enjoyed reading some of the things editors had to say as well. She also kept me grounded with her advice that the process can be hard and there is a lot of competition. But she's very encouraging and uplifting with her advice that there's lots of unexplored plots, characters and ground to be discovered in romance fiction.

Fast Flowing... this book really helps to get you focused and serious about writing.

Rating:
Summary: Very Helpful
Review: This book is very helpful. It gives step by step descriptions in writing your own book. It's flow makes it easy to follow. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in writing their own book that has no background in writing.

Rating:
Summary: Very Helpful
Review: This book is very helpful. It gives step by step descriptions in writing your own book. It's flow makes it easy to follow. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in writing their own book that has no background in writing.

Rating:
Summary: Not enough!
Review: This is a good book, but if you have never published a book before, you will need something more to go with it. I do like the part where she tells you exactly how to write each scene though. It tells quite a bit of information, but to me it's not enough!

Rating:
Summary: The only romance manual you need.
Review: Very, very valuable as both a guide to writing romances and a guide to getting them published. Gives concrete, useful tips and techniques on all aspects of the process, and manages to make it all sound fun and achievable. Especially excellent were the sections on dialogue, planning, plot pacing, and writing for specific lines and genres (historical, fantasy, Christian, etc). Also much fun to read if you think romances are silly, because there are frequent references to how popular "secret babies, cowboys and arranged marriages" are.