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How To (Always) Write A Panty-Dropping Hero For Your Romance Novel
A simple guide to writing a male lead your fans will lose their sh** over — every time you publish.
I still remember the first time I read a Romance novel that really got me hot and bothered. It was the first book of Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunter series, Angel’s Blood.
Oh, boy. Something about the lethal, decadent archangel hero just did it for me (his name is Raphael, in case you’re wondering). Singh’s other books in the series and spinoffs were just as alluring. All of them were very different, of course, but they shared a certain, shall we say, je ne sais quoi.
That’s French for “I don’t know what.” Which is funny, because as a now-experienced writer arse-deep into her own soon-to-be-launched 7 book Romance series…I actually do know what made those characters so damn sexy.
By absorbing this knowledge, you’ll be able to write a male lead that blows the, um, socks off your readers every time you write a story.
Embrace The Reality of “The Formula.”
I can hear it now. “A formula? But I’m an artiste! A creative!” To that, I say: boohoo, sweetheart, you’re also a Romance novelist. Romance readers want certain things from…
