#romance novels

Ever wanted to know how we develop our characters? Take a look at these early drawings of Cordelia from Courting the Crown. Our original concept was to make her an old male wizard, but as the story developed, we decided that making her a young woman gave her more agency, and opened up more possibilities for her in both Courting the Crown and future stories. What do you think? Did we make the right choice?

Art developed by @erenangiolini

To celebrate the ending of Courting the Crown and let you catch up To celebrate the ending of Courting the Crown, we are giving away infinite hourglasses this weekend only! Catch up while you can!

Wanna win stars for the app? Participate in the book club HAPPENING NOW on our twitter and you might!

Behind the scenes with the sketch that became Maeve!

Artist: @erenangiolini on instagram.

Happy National Sibling Day! They can drive you nuts, but you don’t know what you’d do without ‘em!

When Nicky is done reading his newspaper, he likes to take a moment of his morning to do the word jumble. But this one seems to be about him…? How many Two Against The World related words can you find?

The FictIf socials will be silent tomorrow for the Day of Silence to draw attention to the bullying and harassment of members of the LGBTQIA+ community. We promote FictIf as a safe space for all and encourage our community to share their stories and help promote tolerance and acceptance.

Your first adventure into Arvore is coming to a close, read all 11 chapters in the app today, and decide who you want to start your new beginning with.

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New chapters, new adventures!

Meet Serena, aka. Captain Hook! You’ll get to hang out with her very soon…

Sergio has been called to go back into the office - no more WFH attire for him . Personally, we think he looks rather dashing without his pants - what do you think?

So, I think I’m to the point where about 3 or 4 more chapters, and I’ll officially be done with my first draft! This will be the first time in my LIFE I finished a first draft of something that wasn’t a fan fiction, so that’s exciting.
I find myself staring down the abyss, however. What do I do after that? I know I’ll have to go through and edit and re-write and stuff, and in a lot of ways the Patreon support is helping me do that. Because before I post the chapters there, I go through them again and clean them up a little (No major re-writes though I was trying to avoid that to keep myself from getting distracted from FINISHING it.)
So, then what? I guess I have to try and get an agent? Query letters? God, I’m so out of my depth. If anyone knows someone in the business who can give me some pointers, hit me up! I have no idea what I’m doing, and I am currently wallowing in this “So close but so far” kind of feeling. Thoughts, everyone?

Christmas break is coming! With that comes shopping, family dinners, holiday celebrations, quality family time, people you only see once a year. Ahem, maybe you need a little happily ever after to get you through. I have just the list for you. Make a cup of tea, put on your favorite pajama pants, and find your coziest blanket. With these Christmas romance novels you’ll be hoping to get snowed in: http://bit.ly/2Ps1N3E

I know we poke fun a lot at men writing women (and often with GOOD reason) but I’d just like to take a moment to look at women writing men:

• Muscles for days. It doesn’t matter if he’s sixteen and is a band kid whose hobby is skipping PE, if he’s a love interest, that boy has a six pack for some reason. Every man is lean but muscular and always have that perfect V. Six packs are free and you can see them through every and any tshirt.
• Always tall. Like, we can never honor a 5"5 King. Every dude is like 6 feet plus. Even when the woman is tall, the guy is always taller.
• He’s always so much bigger and his hands always dwarf hers. Like, every man has hands the size of dinner plates.
• Penises are always like 8(+) inches. He’s always the biggest she’s ever had and he is a Sex God, where he was a virgin or a vampire with a love life that dates back into the 1500s. He will make her cum 26 times, often with words alone.
• He’s the most poetic fucker you’ve ever met, even if he’s never read a book or watched a romance in his life. He’s going to spout out how she is the last star in a galaxy of loneliness that lights the sole path to his salvation. He’s gonna freelance that shit like it’s nothing.
• He will automatically never find anyone else attractive ever again, even platonically and if he does, he will compare them to the love interest in a way that makes her better. “Joanne had nice eyes. Not like Kelly’s eyes though, which were emeralds polished to a shine that made him think of summer and the fondest of childhood memories in the forest under a sky of jade leaves. Joanne’s were, like, ordinary blue or brown or something.”
• He always smells like things that you don’t even know had a smell. “He smelled like sunlight and cloudless blue skies, of cool winter frost and magic sex musk”
• He’s a douchebag to everyone but the love interest. She makes him a better man. (Ah, the good old “I can fix him” mentality in motion)
• He can eat cupcakes, pizza and beer for breakfast every day of his life and he will never have an extra ounce of flesh anywhere.
• He will randomly quote Shakespeare or Charles Dickens or, I dunno, Julius Caesar
• He always thinks her vagina tastes like rose petals and peaches and strawberry milkshakes
• He is constantly witty and charming and every women who seems him thirsts for him and his six pack and 12 inch schlong but only Kelly will ever catch his eyes and he has never loved anyone as much as he loves her. All other women can catch fire including his mom and he probably wouldn’t notice if it meant one last kiss from Kelly.