Aims, Goals, RomanceNovel1
A couple of days ago, I mentioned a romance novel. This one is written under Writing Head 1’s pen name. She writes contemporary romance and romantic suspense. I was originally going to write for the Harlequin Mills and Boon market, but then I discovered independent publishing. That coupled with a few blogs about contracts, e-book royalties and paper royalties, and I decided that independent publishing might be the way to go. So, I pulled this novel out, dusted it off and spent a month going over a chapter a day to revise, edit and bring the story back into my consciousness. I’m up to chapter 12, and the story is rocking along just fine. This is my first contemporary romance, and since I’m launching a pen name with it, I’m aiming for it to be the first of many. I’ve been told it’s hard enough to break one author name out, let along more than one, but I’ve also been told it’s authorial suicide to write too many very different genres under one pen name. Seeing as I just can’t NOT ...