Links to Other Resources for Authors
How to Write a Swoon-Worthy Sweet Romance Novel
Romance novels aren’t like other genres and hitting all the things that romance readers want can be tricky. How do you make your readers believe your characters are falling in love? How do you show that sizzle of attraction? How do you write a good kissing scene? How do you bring in the much-needed tension but still have your characters flirting and getting closer?
In this book I take one of my romance novels (Acting Married) and I go through the entire novel with you, basically interrupting myself to tell you what I was thinking as I was writing the novel. It’s like watching a movie with commentary. I pull back the curtain so you can see why I started it the way I did, why I decided to put certain scenes in, and what pushes the romance forward in the book.
I preface all this with what I consider the essentials of a good romance novel, and I end with my list of well-loved romance tropes that you can draw from in order to write your own bestselling romance novel.
Learn more...How to Write a Swoon-Worthy Second Chance Romance Novel
Writing a second chance romance is fun, but it brings about its own challenges. The couple already knows each other, and they already have strong feelings about their past relationship. The intensity levels I teach in How to Write a Swoon-Worthy Sweet Romance Novel don’t work as well for a second chance romance. Feelings run strong, from the moment they see each other.
But there is a knack to getting the romance progression to work in a second chance romance. In this book I’ll walk you through one of my own second chance romance novels, Her Big Fat Dreamy Billionaire Ex. I’ll give you each scene and talk about what choices I made for the characters and for the plot and why I made those choices. I’ll show you how I took a high-intensity beginning and still made the romance story progress from a low volume to a high volume.
Also included in this book will be more tips on writing romance in general, how to progress the intimacy level without your characters jumping into bed, and how to get your characters to really open up to each other.
If you loved How to Write a Swoon-Worthy Sweet Romance Novel, you’ll love this second volume!
Learn more...Whole Book Marketing
An Indie Author's Guide to Selling Books
Are you an indie author struggling to sell fiction novels? Is marketing your book overwhelming to you? Are you wanting to start buying ads, but don’t know where to begin?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, this is the book for you. Let NYT’s and USA Today bestselling author Victorine E. Lieske walk you through the process of learning what marketing is, and how to do it effectively. Victorine will tell you all the things she’s tried that haven’t worked, to save you the time and hassle. Don’t make the same mistakes she did. Learn from someone who has been there and done it.
In this book you’ll learn:
- What marketing is, and what you need to know in order to sell books.
- Why defining your genre is so important, and how to do so.
- What different audiences are and why you need to know which audience you’re marketing to.
- The best ways to find your audience.
- Why people buy books, and how this helps you.
- How to get people to subscribe to your newsletter.
- Best practices for writing a blurb.
- Amazon algorithms and why they are important.
- What an author platform is and what you should be doing with it.
- Victorine’s tips on buying ads.
- What to do when nothing works.
- And more!
Marketing your book doesn’t have to take hours and hours. It doesn’t have to be a daunting task. You don’t have to feel like you’re wasting time and nothing is working. Let this book help you discover what the top indies are doing to sell so many books. Order your copy today!
Learn more...The Writing Gals Discuss: Writing to Market
The Writing Gals are four sweet romance authors who have created full-time income for themselves by writing to market, and you can too!
This book is a conversation between Judy Corry, Michelle Pennington, Anne-Marie Meyer, and Victorine Lieske. They discuss:
•What writing to market means, and what it doesn’t mean
•How writing to market helped their careers
•How to find your own passion and turn it into profit
•How to find out if your book is already written to market
•How to find a hot genre and research within it
•How to find ideas that sell
•How to plot a bestseller
•What a trope is and how to use it
•How to twist a trope
•How to find the tropes in your own genre
•How to meet the reader’s expectation while still writing something new and exciting
•What to do after you’ve written your to market book