How I Outline a Romance Novel in One Afternoon (And Why It Never Survives First Contact)
I outline a whole romance novel in one afternoon, with a spreadsheet and a label maker. Then my characters spend four months gloriously ignoring the plan.
Start reading the newest releases
Explore complete stories across multiple genres
The Fallen Hearts series — political intrigue, forbidden romance, and brutal survival as Princess Aria fights for her throne.
The Fractured Dynasty series — epic fantasy of power, betrayal, and royal intrigue spanning generations.
The Wild Flowers series — underground fighting, trauma recovery, and finding strength through darkness.
Handpicked content worth your time
Stories, musings, and behind-the-scenes from my creative journey
I outline a whole romance novel in one afternoon, with a spreadsheet and a label maker. Then my characters spend four months gloriously ignoring the plan.
A corporate attorney abandons her perfect life to uncover the truth about a decades-old murder, and finds herself falling for the victim's nephew in this atmospheric Gothic romance set in a fog-shrouded Maine town. A Bitter Harbor novella.
Writing intimate scenes is the most exposed a romance author ever gets. The fear, the closed-door versus explicit debate, and why it was never about the bodies.
For one week only, Iron and Flame (Fallen Hearts, Book Three) is a Kindle Countdown Deal. June 15 through June 21.
There is a letter that exists in two of my drafting folders and nowhere else in the world. Cut from the close of Iron and Flame. Aria, age forty-one, writing to her cousin in the monastery on the twelfth night after treaty — asking, in writing, for permission to be tired.
Book six of Fallen Hearts is $2.99 for five days, then the price climbs back to $9.99.
The one bed. The snowed-in cabin. The only room left. Why forced proximity works every single time in romance, and the exact place authors fumble it.
I get more letters about Darius than any other character. Where does the mask come from. Did he and Aria really love each other. The dossier I keep at the back of my drafting folder — the one with his birth name, the West Wing, and the manuscript he wrote his children.
Every series I've published is now on Kindle Unlimited. Six series, no gaps. Here's why I made the call, and what it means for you.
Nightshade is live. Oleander drops May 20. The Wild Flowers series begins, and Fallen Hearts is the right place to wait between books.
Behind the seven-book Fallen Hearts saga sits a world I drew long before Aria walked into the Council Chamber. The Stormborn dynasty, the Korrathi war-mages, and the magic system I locked down before book one — opened up for paid readers.
Someone asked me at a book event how I write love scenes. My face went the color of a fire truck. The honest answer is: the same way I write fight scenes. With choreography, stakes, and sheer willpower.