Heated Rivalry: An Emotional Journey Through Love and Rivalry
Heated Rivalry was an emotional rollercoaster - frustration, yearning, jealousy, desire, need - and The Long Game felt like slowly being stitched back together. This is everything I felt, everything I lived, and the quotes that will never leave me.
Dec 26, 20253 min read
The Best Sports Romance: Why You Should Read Heated Rivalry and The Long Game by Rachel Reid
Rachel Reid’s Heated Rivalry and The Long Game, both part of the Game Changers series, deliver one of the most unforgettable slow-burn romances in sports fiction. Through NHL rivals Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, Reid crafts a relationship overflowing with yearning, tension, heartbreak, healing, and profound love. These novels don’t just tell a story—they pull you straight into the emotional intensity of two athletes fighting for both their careers and each other.
Dec 9, 20254 min read
How I Come Up With Book Titles in Every Genre I Write
Titles are my first flirtation with a story — the doorway, the dare, the whispered you want to see what’s inside, don’t you? And every genre pulls a different version of me forward. Rom-com titles get my wink and chaos. Paranormal romance demands teeth and danger. Contemporaries ask for pulse and intimacy. Romantic mysteries want secrets. And romantasy? Magic braided with longing. This is how I shape the first words that set the whole world in motion.
Dec 9, 20252 min read
How I Focus & What My Writing Setup Looks Like: How I Drop Into My “I’m Untouchable Right Now” Zone
I don’t tumble into my writing zone; I ease into it—slow, intentional, like sinking into a hot bath until my thoughts stop sprinting without me. I tune the mood, limit the world, hit a few micro-rituals that trick my brain into creativity, and then let obsession drag me straight into the scene that’s burning hottest. It’s not about discipline. It’s alignment, atmosphere, and falling in love with the story until it pulls me under.
Dec 9, 20252 min read
How YOU Can Create Your Characters: How My Characters Actually Show Up
For me, characters don’t arrive politely. They show up like trouble — loud, messy, magnetic — and immediately start arguing with me about who they are.
I don’t build them from a checklist. I meet them.
A spark, a contradiction, a desire they can’t hide — that’s all it takes. From there, it’s pressure, emotion, and chaos until they sharpen into people who feel real enough to walk off the page and demand I write them right.
Dec 9, 20252 min read
Create A Moment Where A Character Does Something Impulsive Because Of Attraction, And It Changes Everything: The Impulsive Kiss That Changes Everything
She wasn’t supposed to want him — and she definitely wasn’t supposed to kiss him. But one laugh, one look, one spark too many, and impulse took the wheel. Now that single reckless kiss has shifted everything between them… and there’s no going back.
Dec 9, 20252 min read
Write A Flash Scene Where A Character’s Confession Is Interrupted — Leaving Both Of Them In Suspense: The Confession That Gets Interrupted
He finally gathered the courage to confess — the words right there on his tongue, the moment charged and breathless — when a knock at the door cracked it all open. And the worst part? The person interrupting was the one man who could stop the confession cold.
Dec 9, 20252 min read
