Category Archives: Writing Wonkomance

Thinking about wonkomance from an author’s perspective.

A Bitch Too Far

The other day, a friend on Twitter said I ought to “…write an ex-con romance. Where the heroine’s the ex-con. And she totally did the crime. A bad one.” Sure, no problem! There are lots of ways to make even … Continue reading

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Realism, Romance, and Wonk-o-Mance

As Serena pointed out in the comments to her recent post, Why We Like It Wonky, romance is a convention-bound genre. She wrote: When I started writing romance, I’d read maybe fifty books in the genre, and I didn’t yet … Continue reading

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Man-Back Riding

For my first post here at Wonk-Central I thought about doing something on why I am the way I am. You know, like an intensive breakdown of what makes me so wonky, with diagrams done in MS Paint and long … Continue reading

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