Improve Your Romance Writing Skills [Paperback]

Geneviève Montcombroux (Author), Michael Montcombroux (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 10, 2003

Geneviève & Michael Montcombroux, both multi-published authors and teachers, have collaborated on this comprehensive how-to manual.

Improve Your Romance Writing Skills will help the aspiring writer become a successful author and avoid many pitfalls. It will help more experienced writers hone their skills.

Clear and systematic, it's a must for all romance writers. Some of the topics covered include characterization, plot, dialogue, voice, description, pacing, and a host of other skills needed to write a compelling romance novel.

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About the Author

Geneviève Montcombroux has written romances since a teenager.She supported her dance studies by selling romantic short stories to magazines. She holds a degree in literature. A ballet teacher for many years, she has published young people's novels about ballet. A lifelong love of the Inuit Sled Dog led her to write a non fiction book and many articles for magazines about that endangered breed as well as young people's novels. She also has experience as an editor.

Michael Montcombroux holds a Master's in English and has taught at the university and high school levels. Prior to writing Improve Your Romance Writing Skills, he taught an online course on romance writing. He also is an artist and paints in watercolor and oil.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Whippoorwill Pr (March 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0968167535
• ISBN-13: 978-0968167533
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,461,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Genevieve Montcombroux

Born and raised in France, I wrote my first novel at age twelve. In order to get it published, I founded a newspaper for the lycée I attended. It was an instant success, even after the profs read it and allowed it. I sold my first short romance at sixteen to support my meagerly paid budding dancing career. Later I went on to writing novellas and short stories, always romance.

Emigrating to the Canadian Arctic and learning about the Inuit dogs was a dream that came true after I married her own hero and had two children. I have written a score of books in French from children's fiction to romances and in English, romances - Trails of the Heart (a reprint of Northern Lights) as well as non-fiction books - The Canadian Inuit Dog: Canada's Heritage; Improve Your Romance Writing - not to mention numerous articles including a column and feature articles for Dogs in Canada over the period of a decade. My work has appeared in an Anthology of French poets, and in several French short stories anthologies.

For a while, I also delved into erotica writing with A Brush with Passion; and Dance of Desire; written as Cassandra Colt, published by Genesis Bokks.

I was also interested in writing scripts, maybe with a view of becoming the writer of the next blockbuster film (have a giggle). My Romance Story, graphic novels online, published Collision Course and Wanted Man written as Michelle Vawn.

Since then, I have been reassessing what I really want to write, and I am again working on novels, which of course will include some romantic elements.
My passion for the North and sled dogs is drawing me to write about it. Also, I am thinking about a new series which would mesh with my other passion, dollmaking and a world of fantasy. So many ideas...

I live with my husband and eighteen Inuit Sled dogs in a pristine area of the Interlake region of Manitoba in Canada.

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9 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exxcellent Book For Aspiring Romance Writers, August 9, 2005

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Michelle Mcghee "Hopeful Writer" (Raleigh , NC USA) - See all my reviews
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I found this book to be very useful for romance writers. It contains much insight to the writing genre. I have been writing for about 10 years and I found information in this book that I didn't know. I would highly recommend this book to anyone writing romance.