Customer Reviews
An essential guide for series romance authors - By: M. Styles, 01 May 2008 
Kate Walker's 2nd Edition of her highly regarded (and now completely sold out) 12 Point Guide has now been published. It is not a reprint but a vastly expanded & updated guide. Time has not stood still in the field of series romance writing & neither has this book. New features include an approximately 50 page section on author's tips. A wide variety of authors currently writing for different series within the Harlequin Mills & Boon family give thier take on the writing process. Many of these authors credit Kate & the first edition of this book with giving them inspiration & help with their own writing process. I know that she certainly helped me.
Anyone seeking to learn more about writing series romance, or indeed commercial fiction would do well to read this book. Kate Walker offers practical & easily understood advice for any writer seeking to improve their knowledge of craft & to work more effectively with their own unique talent.
Excellent Guide to Writing Romance - By: , 04 Dec 2005 Kate Walker's guide is concise, detailed & practical. Each chapter has exercises to help the would-be author develop their own Romance story.
If you want to write category Romance, then this book is an excellent tool to be used before you write & during the actual writing process.
The only �How to Write a Romance� guide you�ll ever need - By: , 17 Jul 2004 If you're serious about writing a romance novel, let me recommend Kate Walker's 12 Point Guide to Writing Romance. This book has it alll: thought provoking lessons, engaging questions, & helpful writing assignments. I've read at least a dozen other "how to write a romance" guides & none of them are as complete or easy to understand as Ms. Walker's. This guide has something for everyone whether you're a beginner or a best selling author. It does a fantastic job of teaching you new concepts & making you rethink old ones. It's truly the last & only "How to Write a Romance Novel" guide you'll ever need. And I'm sure it will be the standard in "how to guides" for romance writers for many years to come. Thanks, Ms. Walker, for giving the romance community such a wonderful & helpful book.
Buy It! - By: Natasha Oakley, 21 Jun 2004 As an aspiring romance writer, Kate Walker sent me this book. It's a very useful tool for unpacking mistakes in your own writing - given by a woman who's phenomenallly successful in her chosen genre. I am now a multi 'accepted' author, Natasha Oakley, with Mills & Boon myself. What more can I say?
A Master class in romance writing - By: M. Styles, 28 May 2004 Kate Walker has done it again! She has produced a guide to romance writing that has surpassed her previous excellent effort. The book is an outgrowth of her expertise at leading workshops & guiding aspiriing Romance writers of alll ages towards the goal of publication. As well, Kate draws on her expeince of writing over 43 books for Mills & Boon. Anyone who seeks to achieve that goal or who simply wants to improve their craft of romance writing would do well to buy this book.
Not only does Kate explain each of her 12 topics from emotion to the believeable happy ever after ending with a great deal of depth & clarity, she also provides lists of discussion questions to get you thinking about your novel & exercises to help improve your writing.
She explains the hows & whys of conflict, the importance of sensuality & passion as well the need to keep asking why. She even has a section that deals with coping with editor or agent generated revisions. If you are serious about romance writing, this book should be on your shelves.
