Speakers – Jess Anastasi,
Fleur Ferris, Alli Sinclair, Keri Arthur and Erica Hayes. This time around for this blog I am just
writing down things that I found interesting in this discussion.
In 2013 romance books sold for the most amount of money
topping the best seller’s genre list at 1.1 billion dollars outselling all
other genres by 50%. Romance is the hardest category to get published in.
People want stories about people having relationships and that is why romance
is still worldly popular. There is more to romance novels than just sex. You
can’t exactly cut the romance plotline out of a paranormal romance book and
still expect to have the same sort of story going on. The rule for romance is
that love comes to all but that does not mean that your book has to have a
happy ending. Most publishers these days are looking for books that have
happily ever afters for now. Meaning that the true love may not last after all.
Make sure your readers care for your characters.
The black moment – is where everything that can go wrong
will go wrong and has gone wrong. And you have to make the readers believe that
there is no way for the characters to get out of this alive. The bigger the
black moment the bigger the payoff in the end must be.
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