What happens when characters won’t stop telling me their feelings? Vanessa Riley here. I am stopping in today to give you steps to follow when your character won’t shut up. That sounds harsh, but you are on deadline. You’ve made word count. You are tracking to your plan.…
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Top 5 songs for Begging Your Woman Back Vanessa Riley here. Music is a very important part of my writing process and I listened to a lot for my latest release, The Bewildered Bride. Lord Wycliff is love with Ruth Croome, but everything went wrong the last…
Top 5 Christmas Songs that Get you in the Yuletide Mood. “Last Christmas” by Wham This song makes me bittersweet, but I am ready to settle in with a good romance book that offers a second chance love. Hmmm. What would I be reading? …
For this Music Monday, I recount the songs that went through my head when writing The Butterfly Bride. Aretha Franklin’s “I Say A Little Prayer” Frederica Burghley wakes up with her dear friend, Jasper Fitzwilliam, Lord Hartwell. I am thinking she said a little prayer that they…
Please baby, baby, please. I like a good begging second chance love song which puts all the issues on the table–the love and the troubles. Here are some of my favorites: 1. “Hard To Say I’m Sorry” by Chicago He wants to make up for breaking his lover’s…
Here at Entangled, we like to read. (Bet you would never have guessed that.) So we also love quick-n-easy recipes that free up more time for us to indulge in our favorite past time. Each week we’re sharing some of our favorite recipes to help you find a…
Top 5 songs to shake you from sadness and restore your smile by Vanessa Riley Times are rough sometimes. Anxiety surrounds us. Even an author of happy-ever-after stories is not immune. I feel music can help mind, body and spirit renew. So here are my top five songs which…
In my latest release, The Bashful Bride, Ester Croome is given a chance to marry her crush, the best actor in London, Arthur Bex. I started wondering what some of my author friends have as must-marry-crushes. Naima Simone, the author of Scoring Off the Field, has a thing…
Patti Labelle & Micheal McDonald – “On My Own” They were “talking divorce and they weren’t even married”. Yes, that is Theodosia and Ewan, living on their own. Adele – “Rolling in the Deep” The line “The scars of your…
I currently ship of course, Meghan & Harry A ginger Prince and an Auburn-haired American actress – sigh. It’s Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly all over again. I ship Oprah and Stedman. He really needs to put a ring on it. They’ve been…