The Real Men course teaches the building blocks of characterization. It describes how to write hot-blooded Alphas and heart-warming Betas. In addition, it offers a crash course on the psychological differences between men and women (something we've never seen in any other Romance-writing course!) We teach this crucial topic so you can make clear distinctions between male and female characters on the page. To that end, the Real Men course covers how men and women think, how they communicate, and what motivates their behaviors.

Most importantly, the Real Men course helps you develop all kinds of characters (heroes, heroines, sidekicks, and villains) so that you can achieve the ultimate goal of making them complex and memorable.

50 Ways to Give Your Hero Sex Appeal

By comparison, the 50 Ways course helps you combine your character-building knowledge with additional crucial skills. Topics include emotional layering, the redemption of tarnished heroes, and the development of hybrid characters (which are called "anti-heroes" in other genres.) The third lesson of the course is devoted to best practices for writing sexual tension, steamy seductions, hot kisses, sensual love scenes, and a battle of the sexes.

At this moment, we are offering a site-wide discount of 75% on our courses. When the special discount ends, then yes, absolutely, you can bundle courses for a discount.

Our normal bundling procedure works like this: For students who would like to save money, you can bundle two or more courses, or you can combine courses with our coaching service. Packages are fully customizable, as described on our Package Pricing Page. Once you decide which courses you'd like to bundle, please email us with your choices, so we can build your custom package for you. Not sure which courses to pick? Please reach out. We would be happy to help you select your package, based on your writing goals or writing expertise.

You will need a minimum of 5 hours to complete the on-demand videos and self-paced writing exercises. Once you make your purchase, you will have access to the course's materials for 1 year, which should be sufficient time to complete a 5-hour course. After 1 year, our software purges your data from the website.

Absolutely! When you complete one of our paid courses, you are eligible for discounts on private coaching for your work-in-progress (as long as it's a commercial Romance novel.)

For intermediate writers, who have not yet completed one of our paid courses, private coaching may be available for a commercial Romance manuscript.

In either case, an application process is involved, so we can evaluate how well you apply the fundamentals of fiction-writing to your manuscript. To learn more about our private mentorship program, visit our coaching portal.

No pre-requisite is required for this course. However, to quote F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Character is plot, and plot is character." If you're being accused of contrived story-telling; if you can't sustain the romantic conflict in every scene of every chapter; or if the opening pages of your story are killing your sales...

Then we recommend that you bundle Real Men with one or both of the following courses:

• Romance Road Map 
• Where Do I Start My (Freaking) Romance Novel?

After you purchase a course, you will be granted immediate access to all learning components, including digital, pre-recorded content. Our software allows us to track student progress through every section of the course. If you are dissatisfied with your purchase, you may request a refund within 7 days of payment, as long as our software shows that you have not progressed beyond the first video section in your course. If you mark the first video section "complete" in Lesson One, you are no longer eligible for a refund. The details of our refund policy can be viewed on our Terms and Conditions page.