Jenny Schwartz

Tag: publishing

  • 2014 Wrap Up

    2014 has been a year of change for me. I’ll get to the writing stuff — the substance of this post — in a tick, but first I have to acknowledge the huge impact of moving house and all the stuff that went on around it. From finding the house (four months of haunting real…

  • 2013 Predictions

    As both an author and a romance reader I’m interested in what 2013 might bring. Will it be the year that Gothic romances make a triumphant return? Harlequin is debuting a new line called “Shivers“. Phyllis Whitney and Barbara Michaels taught me to love an atmospheric contemporary Gothic, but their books are now decades old.…

  • Brand Promise Jargon

    Maybe those three words, “brand, promise, jargon” don’t jangle your nerves, but they do mine. I think it’s because slick jargon is hiding some important stuff I want to talk about. Stuff like, expectations, conversations, identity, reality, work, friendship and why the heck am I, Ms Hermit, spending so much time on social media? The…

  • Romance Industry News

    Lawyer up! No, don’t go out and hire one – well, unless you need to obviously — but start eavesdropping on their conversations, smile at their rants, generally turn them upside down and shake them so you gain a bit of their shark-like commonsense. In other words, publishing is a business and as a writer,…

  • Romance Industry News

    Am I quoting Rachelle Gardner again? Yes, I believe I am. She’s discussing publishers’ promo activity . They are busy people. Maria Zannini opened a discussion on changes in the publishing industry. And talking of changes, Jane at Dear Author has a fascinating interview with Heather Osborn from Samhain. Less than 50% of what they…