Episode 155 / You can hook readers with a few words or a concept when you use tropes. Romance and non-fiction author, Jennifer Hilt, shares tips on how to recognize tropes, how to bake them into your writing to make marketing easier, and how to twist tropes so they’re fresh for both readers and authors.

Author website: www.jenniferhilt.com

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Show notes:

• Why it’s a good idea to consider marketing before you write the book
• Thinking beyond the basic genre expectations (i.e. “happily ever after in romance)
• The importance of guarding your time
• What Jennifer would do if she were starting over today
• Why you don’t have to rush 
• Tropes as building blocks for relationships
• Incorporating tropes with goals, motivations, and conflict
• Twisting tropes
• Jennifer’s Kickstarter for The Trope Thesaurus Romance and her tips for authors thinking of doing a Kickstarter

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