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You'll learn how romance writers think. Wait a minute that could be scary. Follow me on a typical day as I research, plan my plot, and spank my characters, while I get spanked by my editor, tear my hair out, and turn to drink. Hear the horrors as I learn and produce Tik-tok videos, work with my web designer to set up a reader's magnet, gain control over my mailing list, and wrestle with setting up a marketing plan and book tour for 2023. The joy, the joy. You wouldn't want to miss a single moment, would you? No, you would not. You're going to see all this and learn from my mistakes! Genius. 

Who am I? I once was a sane person with a real job that earned money. I was a tenured art professor, Kay A. Klotzbach, for twenty-five years. I won two Geraldine-Dodge Foundation grants for my paintings. I was awarded a Princeton Mid-Career Fellowship for my Teaching. Now I'm writing and publishing romance novels with The Wild Rose Press, under my pen name, Kay Freeman, with my debut novel due in Spring 2023. I was selected by Romance Writers of America as a mentee for the RAMP program in 2021. One of my short stories, Meeting, Matching, and Dating, was published by Meet-Cute Press, a Rom-Com magazine. The magazine editors wrote: "This piece hilariously captures so much of the bad advice about dating in the age of the swipe right: the overthinking, the nerves, the (bad) advice from friends, the pressure, and the picture filters." I wish I could say it was the easiest thing in the world to write my novel and find a publisher. It wasn't. I plan to share everything I learned about it with you. 

I also plan to reach out to other guest romance authors, pick their brains about what they write and why, how they approach writing and publishing, and ask them all the questions you're afraid to. Join me on this sure to be a hilarious ride. It's me we're talking about, so it will be. I don't understand why I'm not writing Rom-com instead of the dark stuff.

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My interests are simple. Writing romance, Tequila, Blues music, alpha men, people who don't act their age (you know, mentally in our heads, we're age 17) and terrific stories, not boring ones. 

I will, of course, discuss books about writing that helped me, romance books and other fiction I love, and people and programs that have helped me along the way.

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