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A NEW (and exciting) Paranormal Romance Series — All About Wishing

Posted on Dec 12, 2011 in Blog | 2 comments

Well, Shelly’s Second Chance, The Wish Granters, Book One is now available at www.amazon.com. (hint: My co-author and I are both writing under pen names for this series but it’s still us, and I’m still LB from TheNovelette.com) We’re so excited, especially because we’re looking forward to hearing from all of you. Share YOUR wish by entering The Wish Granters contest. All about that below. And pick up your copy of Shelly’s Second Chance. Let us know if you think Shelly made the right decision (after making a...

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To Genre or Not To Genre

Posted on Sep 2, 2011 in Blog | 1 comment

In a blog post at The Millions, my friend and co-author (more about that later), Kim Wright, has posted an eye-opening piece about the switch going on in publishing these days. What switch? The one from writing literary novels to producing genre works. You know, thriller, mystery, romance, suspense, YA … the list goes on. The point of her post is simply that this switch is happening for one very good reason. Genre sells. So why didn’t this happen before? How come the so-called “literary” novel has been on the new...

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