Time Travel Romances

Are these going out of style? You know, like "secret babies" a couple years ago? "Secret babies" are back, by the way. Vampire romances are making a comeback. And the spicier side of life--think "Why Choose" and "Monster Romance" are incredibly popular.

I'm immensely glad the romance genre and its subs (so much pun intended) exist. 

I received my rights back to a Time Travel Romance I published back in the day. I'm editing now. It's longer than I remember, around 77,000 words. It's contemporary. And I feel as though I simply don't see as many of these as I thought.

Needed to reclassify a couple of my stories to "Romantasy"; a word which didn't even exist when I wrote the books.  

This ties in to "writing to market."

I've said it before, and I'll say it again:  It's impossible. The writing market ebbs and flows. A genre breaks out as popular. Authors flood the market with the genre. Market is saturated. Sales decrease. Rinse. Repeat.

Write what you want to write. Need to write. The market, and its readers, will catch up. 

Good books always find a home.

I'll keep that in mind as I edit "In His Own Time". 

It's the small things

Like trying to match the color of cover font to spine and back pieces of the book. Was I driving myself absolutely batshit attempting to do so?

You know me too well.

😂

Lordt.

I made a list, on my trusty post-it note, of the four stories I needed to revise/edit/publish.

I've finished THREE.

🥳🎉

I am SO excited about it!

*deep breath*

Now, I'll be editing/formatting (😡) "One Enchanted Evening." Not sure whether to keep the title as is, or use another one. 

I wrote "Perfect Timing" (the time travel romance) before there were 800 books of the same name. You know, back in the mid-aughts. Twenty odd years later, and I've changed it to "In His Own Time." Revisions should be SLAPPING.

What will I be doing this weekend??? WRITING ON CANARY: OUT OF THE SHADOWS if I have to duct tape my short ass to my desk. 😒

Me and my issues.

Think I may have pulled something last night when granddaughters climbed all over me. Have additional back pain on top of the usual suspects. 

ffs

And that's my world this Friday morning. Back at it. Head first into the craziness that exists in my wee grey matter. 

Need to calm down with the new and shiny and get back to the older and forgotten.

Have a great weekend!