by Taryn Moreau | Oct 17, 2023 | Genre, Musings
I was thinking quite a bit about what I really want when I say I want villain heroes, and while sometimes I am looking for that morally black hero (Lord knows I’m obsessed with shows like Hannibal and Killing Eve), I realized that what I’m most often...
by Taryn Moreau | Oct 15, 2023 | Genre, Writing Journey
So quite a few things have happened since my last post on where I want to go with my writing, and while it hasn’t changed the direction I want to go in, it has inspired me to go even further in the non-commercial direction for my novels. Here are the things that...
by Taryn Moreau | Oct 1, 2023 | Genre, Musings
I came across an interesting conversation on social media the other day involving an erotic horror novel that a dark romance reader was raving about in a dark romance group. She said even though it wasn’t a romance, she loved it. Several other people chimed in...
by Taryn Moreau | Jun 14, 2023 | Genre
I was going to make this a list of my favorite dark erotic fiction and/or dark romance novels, but as I perused my Favorites shelf on Goodreads, I realized a lot of the books I’d listed weren’t proper erotica or romance. I thought about making this a list...
by Taryn Moreau | Jun 14, 2023 | Genre, Musings
I write upmarket fiction and prefer to read it as well, but it’s very much “genre” upmarket fiction. But what distinguishes upmarket fiction from literary fiction and commercial fiction? What the hell distinguishes “genre” upmarket...
by Taryn Moreau | Jun 13, 2023 | Genre, Musings
What’s funny (read: endlessly frustrating) is that I think my fiction could be very popular if it weren’t for one stupid fixation. I find virile, prolific men hot. Virile and prolific, as in they have a lot of casual sex and a lot of offspring—more...