Tag: indie author
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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 Weirdest Places I’ve Ever Gotten Story Ideas
People often ask where authors get ideas. The answer is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. Sometimes an idea arrives fully formed. Sometimes it takes months. Sometimes it appears while you’re doing something completely unrelated and your brain decides, “Excellent. Now seems like the perfect time to invent emotional suffering.” Here are a few places story ideas…
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If You Loved Bride by Ali Hazelwood, Read These Romance Books Next
Every once in a while, a romance book appears that makes readers collectively cancel their plans, ignore their responsibilities, and stay awake until 3 AM muttering, “Just one more chapter.” Bride by Ali Hazelwood was one of those books. It gave readers dangerous attraction, supernatural politics, high emotional stakes, and a hero who somehow managed…
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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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Why We’re All Emotionally Addicted to the Enemies-to-Lovers Trope
There’s a reason readers lose their minds over enemies-to-lovers. Actually, several reasons… Some psychological. Some emotional. Some probably linked to humanity’s collective inability to process attraction in a healthy and uncomplicated manner. Because let’s be honest: nothing in romance hits quite like two people who absolutely should not want each other… wanting each other anyway.…
Sonia M. Rompoti, MSc, Bsc 