by annestephenson | Sep 24, 2018 | Blog, Romance, Wishful Thinking, Writing
Eighteen months earlier… This was the morning I was planning to print out a partial first draft of my romantic thriller. I’m 25,000 words in, and feeling good even though I know I need to cut at least 5,000 words before moving on. Some scenes start too late,...
by annestephenson | Aug 14, 2018 | Blog, Writing
Call it what you will, “the necessary” is the perfect setting! It’s true; everything Susan and I have written together invariably features a bathroom scene. It is the most versatile of locations, and it doesn’t seem to matter whether our...
by annestephenson | Jun 10, 2018 | Blog, Romance, Writing
The Cover Story… As soon as Susan and I found our storyline for Undone by the Star, our second Stephanie Browning romance, we immediately started thinking about the cover. We’d been thrilled with the image and design for Outbid by the Boss, and wanted to...
by annestephenson | May 7, 2018 | Blog, True Crime, Writing
In her 1986 appearance at Trinity College in Toronto, P.D. James reasoned that our fascination with detective fiction stems from a longing to “return in spirit to a more ordered society, a more assured morality.” We want our murderers caught and their crimes...
by annestephenson | Apr 8, 2018 | Blog, Romance, Writing
When Samantha Redfern walked into the dining room at Porter Hall wearing nothing but the sheerest of nightgowns, Susan and I were aghast! We were only three chapters into Outbid by the Boss, our first contemporary romance writing as Stephanie Browning, and our...
