Jeff and I kick off this episode with a recap of our past week, including recording an interview with Daniel Willcocks, an interesting invitation from J. Thorn and details on a class Jeff is taking during July. Our discussion of romance story structure concludes with a look at the “Fighting for Love” section of Gwen Hayes’s Romancing the Beat.
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Jeff talks about his experience this past week with J. Thorn’s Supercharge Your Scene 5-Day Writing Challenge. I recommend that everyone check out a recent episode of The Rebel Author Podcast where Sacha Black talked with Libbie Hawker about outlining. The discussion of story structure, based on Gwen Hayes’s Romancing the Beat, continues with the “Retreating from Love” section. As always, Jeff shares the plot he’s developed for these story beats.
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Big news! Jeff reveals the details of the anthology project he’s been alluding to over the past few weeks.
In the first of a four part series, I dive into a discussion on story structure, specifically The Set Up phase as described in Gwen Hayes’s Romancing the Beat. After reviewing the elements of that phase, we talk about it in action through a couple of examples and Jeff talks about the Set Up he’s working on for his Christmas story.
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Nora Phoenix joins Jeff and I to talk about the results of the survey she recently did of m/m romance readers. We talk about demographics, the huge amount of books readers consume, as well as audiobooks, reviews, BookBub and social media platforms. She has a lot of great information to share and you’re not going to want to miss it.
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After an update on Jeff’s writing and the week in general, we recommend the new podcast, Next Level Authors hosted from Daniel Willcocks and Sacha Black. It’s really terrific, be sure to give it a listen! Authors Alice Archer and Emma Scott join us and each do a round of Q&A talking about their careers and offering advice to those just starting out.
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Well, I can now cross that off my bucket list.
Jeff and I had the distinct pleasure of hanging out with Joanna Penn at last years Podcast Movement event. That was a big deal in and of itself. But we were recently interviewed by Joanna for an episode of the Creative Penn Podcast, her excellent, long-running show that focuses on the business side of publishing. We talked about releasing a book during a pandemic, writing as a couple, the business of the romance genre, and lots more. It was a lot of fun. You can listen for yourself right here.