Hope Ramsay

Hey Ruby Sisters, ya’ll already know me, so I won’t introduce myself. But I thought I would just mention that my blog this month is part of Unsinkable month — welcome to all my Unsinkable sisters (and brother). Now, on to my blog:

“Where do you find your ideas?”
I always find myself cringing, or rolling my eyes, or saying something snotty when a non-writer asks me this question.  Every writer knows that ideas come from everywhere. But have you ever stopped to wonder about the miracle of that?

I have a vivid memory from kindergarten involving Nikki Tillinghast, a beautiful blue-eyed, blond-headed child who always showed up dressed in the best shirt waist dresses, with the stiffest of petticoats (this was 1958 — we wore dresses with petticoats believe it or not).  Nikki never got dirt on her little ankle socks and her [...]

In the years that I’ve been actively writing romance novels, I’ve attended quite a few writers’ conferences. But, by far, the one I look forward to the most–the one I would not miss for anything–is the Washington Romance Writers’ Spring Retreat, In the Company of Writers, which was held this past weekend in Leesburg, [...]

Okay I admit it, next to producing a synopsis the thing I dread the most is writing sex scenes. Luckily I don’t write books that have a whole lot of sex in them, but there always comes that moment (about three quarters of the way into the book) where I have to insert tab A [...]