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Goodreads asked C.M. Genovese:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

C.M. Genovese Be careful about following advice. Everyone has advice. Look, I'm writing some now. You have to write for you, but also write for the audience. I guess that means understand there are rules and decide which rules are worth breaking. Romance has a lot of rules, but if we always follow them, all the stories will be the same. We're dangerously close to that happening already. I like to break the rules. It'll cost me a one-star review every now and then, but I understand that. I just can't follow the same ol' formula. But hopefully, I'll pick up some readers and fans anyway.

Oh, and I've written a few blog posts with advice too. Read those, as I plan to keep going with them as I learn some tricks along the way.

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