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Category: Romance

Why Write About a Ranch?

I visited Wyoming for about a day a long time ago, and I liked the looks of the state. When I decided to write a romance about a rich but entirely too self-confident man, I set it in Wyoming and made him a rancher. In real life, ranches have boundary…

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Irene Vartanoff November 10, 2019 December 29, 2021Books, Romance, Writing

The Ranch Master, or Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

“Meanwhile, back at the ranch,” was a cliché by the mid-twentieth century, and it probably was used for another fifty years previously, the heyday of the American Western. This phrase in the old movie serials switched focus from one scene to another. With Book 4, the Selkirk Family Ranch series…

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Irene Vartanoff December 17, 2018 December 26, 2018Books, Romance

A Tale of Many Cowgirls

In 2016, I wrote the first draft of Cowgirl Rescue and then found a lovely cover for it and bought it. That was in July. I didn’t know for sure what the title of the third Selkirk Family Ranch book would be, so I had the cover designer dummy up…

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Irene Vartanoff April 17, 2017 July 1, 2017Books, Romance, Writing

Read the Blog Post, Take the Survey

In my newest guest blog post talking about writing, I discuss writing series books. As you may know, I’ve been writing the Selkirk Family Ranch series for a while, and I’m currently finishing up Book 3. At the end of the post, I mention that I’m looking for opinions and…

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Irene Vartanoff January 31, 2017 January 31, 2017Books, Romance, Writing

Where to find my articles on writing

I acquired, edited, and wrote stories for MyRomanceStory.com and most of the posts on its blog for a number of years. In addition, I wrote a series of articles under the heading of Writer’s Resources. Surprisingly, they still contain some useful advice for the would-be published author of romance. Writer’s…

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Irene Vartanoff January 6, 2017 January 6, 2017Romance, Writing

Women’s Fiction versus Romance

I write both romance and women’s fiction novels. They are very different even though they may contain many of the same elements. A romance has to focus on one key romantic relationship above all. A women’s fiction novel can be about multiple relationships and characters. My women’s fiction novel, Summer…

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Irene Vartanoff April 22, 2016 April 22, 2016Hoarding, Romance, Writing

A Daughter’s a Daughter visuals

These visuals were made in my Canva class, but as you can see, their legibility is a work in progress.

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Irene Vartanoff February 21, 2016 February 25, 2016Romance, Writing

Where Do I Get My Ideas?

From this and that I was in Valparaiso, Chile, walking down a narrow street filled with flowers with a lovely young woman who was acting as a personal guide, when she asked me how I got my ideas. I answered, “From this and that,” which was the exact truth. One…

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Irene Vartanoff February 5, 2016 July 1, 2017Comics, Romance, Writing

The Story Behind Summer in the City

In Summer in the City, my first women’s fiction novel, I combined mythic, romantic Manhattan with a real-life Greenwich Village co-op apartment building. Why do this? Because people have fantasies of coming to New York and living in a brownstone on a tree-shaded city street, near the action yet sheltered…

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Irene Vartanoff January 10, 2016 July 19, 2016Books, Romance

Sequel to Captive of the Cattle Baron–Saving the Soldier

Saving the Soldier is JD’s story. Jesse Dwayne Selkirk is Baron Selkirk’s younger brother, the cocky young man who chased the girls and always won the game. When he joined the Army and was deployed to the Middle East, JD matured from a teenager into a man. But then his…

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Irene Vartanoff December 23, 2015 July 19, 2016Books, Romance
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