Constantly Reading, Constantly Changing with Eloisa James

At the Creative Independent, romance novelist and Shakespeare professor Eloisa James (whose real name is Mary Bly) discusses how she keeps her writing process fresh, whether it’s for her bestselling romance novels or academic texts. “If you’re going to have a long career in writing,” she explains, “you need to be constantly reading in your genre. What you’re going to write is going to change. It has to change.”