Caro Kinkead's Blog

Welcome to 2022! With the new year just begun, we’re all making plans and resolutions. Or we’re resolving not to make plans and resolutions for various reasons, often because we hate ourselves for doing so five days in. (Been there, done that.)

As a writer, I’ve got a business to run, so there are plans. I do my planning quarterly because I find it’s easier to adjust if space frees up or something goes south. Tha...

The question this week is whether Romance is my number one read, why, and what else do I read. This is a question more difficult to answer than you might think.

I’m a binge reader. I will take an author and read five or six of their books. When I start to see the tropes and how they structure things, I stop and move on to something else. This isn’t a slam at the authors, by any means. Sometimes, I read books and ...

This week for Romance Writers Weekly, we’re playing a game—Never Have I Ever (Book Edition). When in school, I despised playing this game because I all too often ended having a high score, making me a target for the resident mean girls. However, I think most of us will score fairly low. Give yourself one point for anything you haven’t done.

Dropped a book on my face while reading. Hardback, paperback, and iPad. A...

The question for the week is “What do you love about the autumn?” If my mom is reading this post, she’s laughing because she knows the answer.

Some folks love falling leaves or the crisp scent of cooler weather in the air. Me? I love pumpkins. I’m not talking pumpkin spice (though I’m fond of that as well), but pumpkins. Big, fat orange ones. Adorable little ones which fit in the palm of your hand. Seeing them pi...

This week, the question is “What is your favorite thing about being a writer and why?”

The answer is easy. Telling the story, seeing the worlds and people inside my head come to life on the page, if only for myself. A number of pieces live only on my hard drive or in the cloud which will never end up before an audience. Much of the collection is fan fic, some unfinished, some old. Some is the result of trying new...

The answer for the blog hop this week is “If your favorite book hasn’t been made into a movie yet, who would you cast as the characters?”

There are a number of books I would love to see as a movie or series. One of them, The Last Herald Mage trilogy from Mercedes Lackey, was optioned for a series in August of this year. Executive producing will be Ted Fields (The Wheel of Time), with Kit Williamson (Netflix’s Eas...

It’s Fall! (Or will be on the 23rd.) The air is crisp, the leaves are turning…

…and where I live, we expect temperatures in the mid-90s. Welcome to Southern California.

The question this week for the Romance Writers Weekly blog hop is if our reading habits change with the season. My answer is “yes and no.” I still read the same books I read throughout the year—romance, mystery, history, SF/Fantasy, the back of ce...

This week’s topic is, “If you could spend an afternoon with anyone, living or dead, who would it be and why?”

I always find this a loaded question because it’s easy to fall into the trap of naming someone you think makes you sound smart. Same with “What famous figures would you invite to a dinner party?” Back In the late 70’s, Steve Allen did an excellent take with his Meeting of Minds series on PBS. The show is,...

I will confess I am not a fan of Summer. It’s hot and smoggy here in La-La Land, with temperatures often in triple digits prior to noon. (Any day I can swim comfortably at 6 AM is a day I consider too hot.) All of this means August finds me inside, air conditioner going, binging movies and series when I’m not working. Ah, the glory of this age when I can flop on my couch and have a large video library at my comma...

It’s easy to answer the question “What’s your favorite film?” The answer almost seems a bit of a cliche, though.

Let’s flash back to the days before video recorders, when the only way you could catch a Hollywood classic was a rare re-release or when it aired on your local station. With commercials, naturally. By the time I was a teenager, I was well-versed in silents and samurai films thanks to our local public ...