by Ruthie | Feb 16, 2017 | News, Reading/Writing, Ruthie Knox, What to Read
Ahem. So there are some sexytimes in MADLY, as you have no doubt intuited. One of the things I wanted to do in this book was play around a little bit with what “sex” meant, and what healthy consent can look like between two adults with full possession of...
by Ruthie | Feb 15, 2017 | News, Reading/Writing, Ruthie Knox, What to Read
Sex and romantic love are intertwined, and for so many of us, when romantic love goes bad — or is bad in the first place, however long it takes us to figure that out — there are problems in the sex department, too. In Madly, Allie is in her early 20s, coming off a...
by Ruthie | Feb 12, 2017 | News, Reading/Writing, Ruthie Knox, What to Read
Heroine-shaming is rampant in romance — so often, as readers, we’ll forgive the hero literally anything but find we just can’t connect with the heroine, that we just don’t like her, that she seems too young, too irresponsible, or makes bad choices we...
by Ruthie | Feb 11, 2017 | News, Reading/Writing, Ruthie Knox, What to Read
It’s one thing to make a scandalous list and quite another to commit to doing it. With the guy you just met at a bar. For no reason other than that you want to. But once Allie and Winston get the list underway, they find they’re soon in over their...
by Ruthie | Feb 10, 2017 | News, Reading/Writing, Ruthie Knox, What to Read
I’ve always liked the idea of a list, the way it can work in a novel between two characters to give them stakes, to give them freedom, and to put a little pressure on them. In my very first romance manuscript, the heroine flies to Hawaii with a list scrawled out...
by Ruthie | Feb 8, 2017 | News, Reading/Writing, Ruthie Knox, What to Read
This one speaks for itself! Preorder MADLY today, and catch up on reading the New York series with TRULY (on 0.99 sale for the next few weeks) and ABOUT LAST NIGHT.
