News

I did fifteen pages today. Fifteen pages of the next Anita book. Its about what I did of THE HARLEQUIN so many months ago, so I wouldn’t be starting with a blank page. Frankly, I’m not sure if it’s book sixteen, or if it’s the beginning of a novel-lite. Tired, not sure. But I know I have to stop working on it, so I can finish edits of THE HARLEQUIN, and start Merry number 6.
MISTRAL’S KISS comes out next week. Merry number 5. There was a time just after my first series was rejected that I thought I’d never sell another book. Now here I am editing book fifteen of one series, and days away from the release of a fifth in another series. Both series are New York Times bestsellers. Both of them are mixed genre which I was told, years ago, did not sell. I lost track of the number of agents, editors and publishers that told me what I wanted to write didn’t have an audience, would never be successful. The market was flooded with vampire books, why write another? When I wanted to write a modern day fairie tale with real fairies, I was told to just keep writing about vampires. It was doing pretty good, why try to write something else? I write because no one was writing vampires the way I wanted to read them almost twenty years ago. No one was doing the fey the way I wanted to see them, so, like The Little Red Hen, I’d do it myself.
I seem to have started a sub-genre. Is it paranormal romance, gumshoe fantasy, urban fantasy romance? No one’s really come up with that perfect phrase. If we could just come up with something as cool sounding as cyberpunk, but alas, I don’t know what to call it either. My books read more like hard-boiled mysteries, or horror novels in tone of writing, but the romance and the magic is most definitely there, too. What do I write? What I want to read. Isn’t that what all writers write?