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I get bored easy.<\/p>\n

That’s why I tend to work on three or four things at once.\u00a0 That’s just me.\u00a0 At any given time, I can usually be found in the middle of a paranormal, a contemporary, a steaming hot erotic romance…\u00a0 usually all of them open documents on my lap top.<\/p>\n

When I first got into writing erotic romance, I knew that I didn’t want to write just that.\u00a0 I don’t read just that.\u00a0 I can’t imagine writing just that.\u00a0 Sorry, much as I enjoy the steamy stuff, that would be so very boring.\u00a0 For me…doesn’t mean that other writers can’t do it happily and very well.\u00a0 But not me.\u00a0 I get bored too easily.\u00a0 So I jumped around a lot.<\/p>\n

Right now, my jumps are all squarely in the romance genre and that’s probably going to stay that way for a while.\u00a0 Eventually, I do want to spread out more though.\u00a0 I want to write a few fantasies that I’ve been toying with forever<\/em>, and I have an idea or two for horror books.\u00a0 Yep, horror.\u00a0 Don’t know if they’d be any good.\u00a0 But I’m going to try.\u00a0 Sooner or later.<\/p>\n

I never wanted to be known as just an erotic romance writer.\u00a0 Or just a paranormal writer.\u00a0 Or a contemporary… the list goes on and on.\u00a0 Most people who’ve seen my backlist<\/a> know that I’ve done everything from paranormal to contemp to light bondage to some romances that verge on the sweeter side to threesomes, to fantasies… etc etc etc.<\/p>\n

I know some readers get really hooked on a certain genre or a series, and then they feel disappointed when one of their author ventures out of that area.\u00a0 I hate to think I might disappoint some readers, but I’m also hoping most people will try to understand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I can’t control the ideas that come into my head… the only thing I can do is write them.\u00a0 Yeah, I can bargain some, negotiate a little, but in the end, if that heroine doesn’t want to live in\u00a0a paranormal world with a bloodsucker that claims she is his lifemate, then I can’t force her into that role.\u00a0 The heroine with that mindset belongs in some sort of contemporary world.\u00a0 Forcing her some place where she doesn’t fit is like tossing red undies in with your bright whites.\u00a0 You end up with a mess that’s probably not salvageable.<\/p>\n

Writers are people.\u00a0 People change every day.\u00a0 When a person changes, their thinking process changes.\u00a0 What appealed to them yesterday may not appeal\u00a0to them\u00a0today.\u00a0 People grow.\u00a0 All there is to it.\u00a0 None of us are the same people we were ten years ago, and in another ten, we’ll be even more different.\u00a0 Could be subtle, could be major, but there will be differences.\u00a0 If a person changes, then naturally the person that writes is also going to change~it will show in their stories.<\/p>\n

And what brought this on?\u00a0 LOL.\u00a0 A comment from a bookseller last night that some readers were surprised with the change in my writing scattered between my publishers.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 My writing has always been all over the board, I just have more options on where to send things now.\u00a0 I’m big on variety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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