Tag: indie author life
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Summer Romance at its Best: Why Do We Still Think About Someone We Only Knew for Two Weeks?
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been minding your own business, folding laundry or standing in the supermarket trying to decide whether you really need another iced coffee, when suddenly your brain goes: “Remember that guy you met on holiday eight years ago?” Excuse me? I don’t remember where I left my sunglasses ten minutes…
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7 Romance Books for Readers Who Love Powerful Women
There was a time when romance heroines were often written as people things happened to. Thankfully, those days are fading. Today’s romance readers want women who make decisions, start trouble, save themselves, build businesses, protect families, run kingdoms, lead covens, and occasionally set entire storylines on fire. Power looks different in every book. Sometimes it’s…
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Why Most Authors Burn Out Before They Succeed
There’s a specific kind of exhaustion that happens when you turn creativity into constant visibility. Not writing itself.Not storytelling.Not even publishing. Visibility. The posting.The marketing.The algorithms.The pressure to be entertaining, insightful, productive, aesthetic, relatable, vulnerable, and somehow professionally branded at all times like a tiny exhausted corporation with Wi-Fi. A lot of authors don’t burn…
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The Right Way to Choose a Pen Name as an Author
Choosing a pen name feels deceptively simple at first. You sit down thinking:“How hard can it be to pick a fake name?” Three hours later, you’re spiraling because every combination either sounds like a Victorian ghost, a law firm, or someone who absolutely sells scented candles on Instagram while posting about moon water. Which honestly…
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The Indie Author Myth Nobody Talks About
One of the biggest lies floating around the indie author world is that success happens quickly if you “just stay consistent.” Technically? Consistency matters. But social media has turned publishing into this strange performance where authors feel pressured to act like every preorder is selling out stadiums while privately eating shredded cheese at midnight wondering…
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The Rise of Cozy Dark Romance
A few years ago, dark romance was all sharp edges. Danger. Obsession. Morally questionable men who looked at laws more like creative suggestions. The fantasy was intensity above all else. And readers still love that. But something interesting has happened recently inside romance spaces, especially on BookTok and Kindle Unlimited. Dark romance has softened emotionally…
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What My Writing Process Actually Looks Like
People sometimes imagine authors writing in beautiful candlelit silence while inspiration floats gently through the room like a Jane Austen ghost carrying emotional support tea. I regret to inform you this is largely propaganda. My actual writing life usually involves: Especially writing romance….. Because good romance isn’t really about kissing scenes or attractive people dramatically…
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5 Romance Books That Understand Curvy Women Deserve Epic Love Too
There’s something deeply exhausting about reading romance as a curvy woman and realizing the heroine’s entire personality is “surprised a man likes her.” Like. Please. We are tired. Romance readers deserve stories where curvy women are desired openly, loved loudly, and treated like the main character from page one instead of a self-esteem recovery project…
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Why Plus-Size Romance Still Matters
There’s something deeply strange about the way society talks about women’s bodies. Women are expected to love themselves, but not too loudly. Be confident, but not visible. Be desirable, but only within very specific rules created by industries that profit from insecurity. And romance books? For a very long time, they reflected that. The heroine…
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A Small Change to the Daily Romance Stories (And What’s Coming Next)
After months of sending daily romance stories directly to inboxes, I’ve decided to make a small change to how things will work moving forward. Don’t panic. The fictional men are not being taken away from you…. The stories are staying. But instead of receiving them automatically by email every day, the daily short romances will…
Sonia M. Rompoti, MSc, Bsc 