by Taryn Moreau | Aug 23, 2024 | Musings
I watched Rachel Oates’ YouTube video We Need More Women To Speak Out Like This, and she points out something about abuse and media that backs up what I’ve been arguing for a while. She reads a passage from the memoir, Why Did You Stay? by Rebecca...
by Taryn Moreau | Jun 8, 2024 | Genre, Musings
If you’ve read a decent amount of my posts, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve spent a long time struggling with the fact that what I want to write is almost dark romance or, fairly often, technically is dark romance. But my novel ideas are,...
by Taryn Moreau | Nov 18, 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 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 29, 2023 | Musings, Writing Journey
Remember my very first post on this blog, about how I Gave Up Trying to Make It as a Writer? The one I only wrote seven months ago? I’ve tried to embrace the idea of being more of a literary dark speculative fiction writer who was just doing it for the pure joy...
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...