{"id":2846,"date":"2015-06-25T20:40:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T03:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2015-06-25T20:40:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T03:40:22","slug":"recommended-for-writers-kate-walkers-12-point-guide-to-writing-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2015\/06\/25\/recommended-for-writers-kate-walkers-12-point-guide-to-writing-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended for Writers: Kate Walker&#8217;s 12-Point Guide to Writing Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1dHMXyF\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2847\" src=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Kate-Walker-12-point-cover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Walker 12 point cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ate%20Walker's 12-Point Guide\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Walker&#8217;s 12-Point Guide\u00a0to Writing Romance<\/a> orients aspiring Romance writers toward Mills &amp; Boon&#8217;s guidelines for their numerous &#8220;lines&#8221; of subgenera. This might make it a strange book for me to recommend, since I encourage up-and-coming writers&#8211;especially for Romance&#8211;to consider going Indie.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, studying Publisher Guidelines for Romance Subgenera is a wise move, especially if you&#8217;re just starting out. One of the problems Indie writers run into is a failure to refine their focus to win a particular readership. They make basic mistakes that would have their manuscripts\u00a0tossed into a Reject pile by any acquiring editor&#8230; but in this case, the Readers throw the books into the Reject pile.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid that, the wise writer will not scorn the high standards of the &#8220;Gatekeepers,&#8221; but learn their secrets. After mastering a genre and associated subgenres, of course, the writer can knowingly (not ignorantly) choose to bend or merge them from a position of strength.<\/p>\n<p>Buy <a href=\"http:\/\/ate%20Walker's 12-Point Guide\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Walker&#8217;s 12-Point Guide\u00a0to Writing Romance<\/a> by Kate Walker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Walker&#8217;s 12-Point Guide\u00a0to Writing Romance orients aspiring Romance writers toward Mills &amp; Boon&#8217;s guidelines for their numerous &#8220;lines&#8221; of subgenera. This might make it a strange book for me to recommend, since I encourage up-and-coming writers&#8211;especially for Romance&#8211;to consider going Indie. Nonetheless, studying Publisher Guidelines for Romance Subgenera is a wise move, especially if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,434,579,580,582],"tags":[696,698],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-for-writers","category-romance","category-writing-advice","category-writing-craft","category-writing-novels","tag-recommended-for-writers","tag-romance-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}