I mentioned earlier this week I’d have a guest post over at Nicole’s WORD for Teens blog as part of her characterize series. It’s up and live now! When she told me to write about characters and characterization and what works and doesn’t work, I spent a long time debating what I wanted to talk about. I started a post about unlikable characters (since I love them) but then thought about an entirely different angle: romantic male leads. And it so turns out all of the books I talk about were written by women. Do those characters work? Why or why not? Will boys even read them? Go see.