Writing Archives - Regina Kammer https://reginakammer.com/category/writing/ Provocative historical romance and contemporary romance with a touch of history Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:36:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/reginakammer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/GenWifeCrop500x500.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Writing Archives - Regina Kammer https://reginakammer.com/category/writing/ 32 32 46495023 Censorship is Coming https://reginakammer.com/censorship-is-coming/ Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:10:37 +0000 https://reginakammer.com/?p=9977 The 2024 elections in the United States are devastating to all who believe in freedom of expression and freedom of speech. Censorship is coming to the United States. Censorship of the books you want to read. Prepare for the censorship … Continue reading →

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]]> 9977 Sex and the Seasoned Romance https://reginakammer.com/sex-seasoned-romance/ Sun, 12 Mar 2023 10:30:57 +0000 https://reginakammer.com?p=6277 In 2018, I was on a Seasoned Romance panel at the Emerald City Writers Conference. My topic was “Sex and the Seasoned Romance”. I was recently reminded of this presentation when another author posted a rather shocking comment in a … Continue reading →

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]]> 6277 Heat levels vs. erotic romance (and erotica) https://reginakammer.com/heat-levels/ Tue, 29 Jun 2021 04:48:28 +0000 https://reginakammer.com/?p=8325 In one of my writers’ groups the subject of heat levels in romance came up, and how to describe romance novel sexy times (or lack thereof) on some sort of scale. You probably think this is an easy discussion, right? … Continue reading →

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]]> 8325 Definitions: Erotica, Erotic Romance, Steamy Romance (Reprise) https://reginakammer.com/definitions-reprise/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 23:40:12 +0000 https://reginakammer.com?p=6243 In a couple of discussion forums I’m on, the question of what is erotic romance vs. what is steamy romance has come up yet again. As a writer of both, and of erotica, I know the answer. I wrote a … Continue reading →

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]]> 6243 Republishing Madness: Two steps forward, one step back, but still moving https://reginakammer.com/republishing-madness/ Sun, 01 Jul 2018 08:30:01 +0000 https://reginakammer.com?p=5439 For the last three years of my author life I’ve felt like Sisyphus pushing a stone up a hill, only to have it roll back down, thus negating any progress. It has been very frustrating, to say the least. Instead … Continue reading →

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]]> 5439 Sex Scenes: Who, What, When, Why, and How Many https://reginakammer.com/sex-scenes/ Thu, 22 Mar 2018 06:39:26 +0000 https://reginakammer.com?p=5270 “How many sex scenes?” is a perennial question in the National Novel Writing Month Erotica Forum. Meaning, how many sex scenes should an erotica or erotic romance novel have? Just this week, I saw the same question asked on a … Continue reading →

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]]> 5270 Amazon Adds Samhain to Its List of Victims https://reginakammer.com/amazon-adds-samhain-to-its-list/ Sun, 28 Feb 2016 23:05:59 +0000 http://reginakammer.com/?p=3069 The digital-first, romance publisher Samhain has announced it is closing. Despite never having been published by Samhain, this news makes me very sad. Samhain was my target publisher, the one I aspired to be published by. The publisher from whom … Continue reading →

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]]> 3069 The Harwell Heirs, Reverted https://reginakammer.com/the-harwell-heirs-reverted/ Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:47:40 +0000 http://reginakammer.com/?p=2891 Rights reverted, that is… A special announcement to fans of historical erotic romance! My Victorian series Harwell Heirs is currently in limbo. Rights for two of the three books are in the process of reverting to me. I’m preparing to … Continue reading →

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]]> 2891 2015: End of Year Post https://reginakammer.com/2015-end-of-year-post/ Fri, 01 Jan 2016 06:45:47 +0000 http://reginakammer.com/?p=2829 It’s just an hour or so before 2016, just enough time for an end of year post for 2015. I haven’t posted all December for two reasons: winter holiday road trip to see family and friends (with intermittent WiFi), and … Continue reading →

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]]> 2829 Mature Romance https://reginakammer.com/mature-romance/ Sat, 03 Oct 2015 08:15:28 +0000 http://reginakammer.com/?p=2644 It happens to the best of us. It happens to the worst of us. But we’re lucky if it happens to us at all. Getting older. As we tally off the years, we get a little soft around the middle, … Continue reading →

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