I’m excited to welcome my friend, Nicole Deese, to Inspy Romance today! And she just happens to be talking about what I think is the most romantic season– fall. Please join me in welcoming Nicole and congratulating her on her upcoming release! ~ Carla In the same way that people call me un-American for my […]
About Carla Laureano
From Page to Screen
If you’ve been to the movies lately (or watched any TV) it seems like every hit film is tagged with the note: “From the bestselling book.” From dystopians (Hunger Games, Divergent) to young adult romance/literary fiction (The Fault in Our Stars, If I Stay), filmmakers are increasingly mining bookshelves for story ideas that can be […]
The Changing Face of Inspy Romance
I had a pleasure of attending the Romance Writers of America national conference in San Antonio two weeks ago, and what an experience! I’ve attended medical conferences in my former life, and I’ve gone to several Christian writing conferences over the past couple of years, but this was my first time being surrounded by almost […]
Why We Read Romance
I had a college professor whose favorite saying was “The pleasure of recognition surpasses the pleasure of surprise.” He was referring to the joy we found in recognizing a thought or a trope or a hidden reference in literature or film. It was a reminder that the pleasure in reading actually increases with a familiarity […]
Ten Things You Don’t Know About Amy Matayo
If you’ve been around Christian fiction for a while, you’ve probably heard the name Amy Matayo. She won ACFW’s 2012 Genesis Contest in contemporary romance for the book that would become her debut novel, The Wedding Game. Her second book, Love Gone Wild, was released in February 2014. You probably even know that her quirky […]
The Romance of the Everyday
I adore those early days of romance that make up novels. The “meet-cute,” which in real life is sometimes not so cute, the getting-to-know you phase where each meeting is breathlessly fraught with anticipation and longing, and finally the glorious moment when the couple decides that it’s True Love, and they will live happily ever […]
Putting Real Life Romance on the Page
I sometimes joke because I write in both the romance and fantasy genres that there is very little difference between the two, especially the way that I write it. After all, I love to write exotic locations, interesting professions, and whirlwind romance, things that we generally don’t association with our own day to day lives. […]
Heroes and Icebergs
What do icebergs and heroes have in common? No, I’m not talking about writing a leading man so hot he could melt the polar ice caps. I’m talking about character development. There’s a theory of writing, first espoused by Ernest Hemingway, that says a book is like an iceberg: the reader only sees a small […]
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