Welcome to another week, on the Romance Writers Weekly blog hop! Today's topic is tropes! We're asked the question: "What are your favourite tropes to read and write?"
Ooh. Always a tricky question for me. I'm not all that big on tropes, to be honest. I do love a good second chance romance story because it's all about redemption and growth and hope and all that good stuff. And who doesn't love a good redemption story? Also, as a writer, you've already got all those yummy emotions right there, just waiting to spill out. I struggle with writing insta-love; even though I've seen plenty of real life "love at first sight" stories, so I don't know why I'm so skeptical. In second chance stories, the H/H know exactly what they're getting into.
OTOH, I'm working on a second chance story right now, and it's not coming together all that well. I think there may have been a little too much water under that particular bridge.
But, really as a reader--and even more as a writer--I love to try different things. Every time I decide there's a trope I have absolutely no interest in, my very contrary muse starts pestering me with story ideas for that very trope.
It's release week for Strictly by the Book!
An adventurous, go-with-the-flow historian…a scrupulous, stick-to-the-rules scientist…an attraction so wrong it’s absolutely right.
Natalie Minton’s cheerful exterior hides desperation. She’s been out of work for months when her estranged sister appears on her doorstep pleading for help. An offer to write the biography of a local political legend couldn’t come at a better time.
Rafe Talbot rejected family tradition and chose medicine over politics. When he stumbles upon evidence of a hidden scandal, his only recourse is to work alongside—and stay one step ahead of—the vivacious scholar hired to chronicle his mother’s career.
Natalie’s exuberance strikes sparks off Rafe’s steely severity, luring them to ignore the secrets shadowing their pasts…until the glare of the present exposes intolerable truths.
Shifter Fever
A Limited Edition Free Collection
This free Shifter-themed collection will be available through Bookfunnel for a limited time only, and will include my short story: Can't Fight the Moonlight
The Sierra Nevada foothills have been vampire Josiah Lodge’s hunting grounds for over a century. Alone since a lover’s betrayal cost him his family, the former trapper-turned-wildcrafter has given up on ever again finding love or acceptance. If he didn’t have to eat, he’d never venture out of his woods again. But needs must.
When Coldpelt (Cole) Moonwalker’s true shifter nature asserted itself, he was judged an abomination and cast out of his pack. Without a territory to call his own, he’s constantly on the move—which is how he ends up on Josh’s doorstep. While Cole dreams of someday finding a place where he can belong, he knows that place can never be with the scarred and surly vampire who undoubtedly has the blood of Cole’s people on his hands.
Will the attraction they feel for one another allow these natural enemies to overcome their sense of mutual distrust? Is enemies with benefits even a thing? Find out when you download this FREE anthology!
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