I enjoy reading historicals and I adore writing them.\u00a0\u00a0But to me history is mood and it's part of the world I create for each book.\u00a0 I can alter events, rearrange them or create them\u00a0out of whole cloth.\u00a0 In\u00a0my\u00a0books everything exists to advance the story so that it follows my muse's twisted inclinations. It'll be a winding road, but it will end happily, every time.\u00a0 To get there I may create language, events or people that bear no relation to the history we learned in school.\u00a0 Ultimately, in a QA tale, everything exists to serve the romance and that includes history.\u00a0 That irritates the heck out of some folks, but\u00a0I believe there are books enough to cater to every taste.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Regardless of my history as mood philosophy, my historicals still far outsell my contemporaries.\u00a0 In fact, overall in the romance world everywhere - historicals tend to far outsell contemporaries.\u00a0 And that bothers me.\u00a0 It bothers me a lot.\u00a0 There are some great contemporary writers and some fabulous stories set in our very own era.\u00a0 I like to think that some of those fabulous contemporaries, a couple of them to date, are mine.\u00a0 And just like my historicals - my \"now\" is apt to look and feel a lot different because from over the top, everything looks better.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I wish we could give contemporaries their own month.\u00a0 Better yet, why not give them their own season.\u00a0 Yes, I think Spring should be the era of now.<\/p>\n
As we anticipate the \"Spring Into A Contemporary\" movement, we're\u00a0sprucing up our contemporaries with brand new titles.\u00a0 To be more accurate - we're adding a subtitle.\u00a0\u00a0The change has already been made to one book -\u00a0Griffin's is now - Dangerous Relations:\u00a0 Griffin's Law.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 We'll be changing the other one - now titled The Billionaire's E-mail Seduction<\/a> -- shortly. \u00a0The covers of both books will catch up soon too.\u00a0<\/p>\n Why the change?\u00a0 It came about because we were tinkering with the title of my WIP, which is - you guessed it - a contemporary.\u00a0 I'd been calling it \"The Office Ink\" or \"The Office Ink Spells Murder\".\u00a0 But while the book centers around a murder - it's mostly a romance.\u00a0 This murder occurs at a family law firm.\u00a0 After my dearest hubby suggested the subtitle, I realized that not only does it suit \"Office Ink,\" it also suits all my contemporaries.\u00a0<\/p>\n My contemporaries are all focused on what happens when love intersects with the law.\u00a0\u00a0Dangerous Relations describes events for the lovers and events surrounding the lovers.\u00a0 It's a great \"hook\" for all of the books and we hope the \"hook\" reels in more readers to check out how now looks from over the top.\u00a0<\/p>\n We haven't settled on a firm title for E-mail yet.\u00a0 Adding\u00a0the subtitle to the front of E-mail would produce a title of unwieldy length.\u00a0 It's current title is already a little wordy.\u00a0 I'm thinking of \"Dangerous Relations: Tempting The Billionaire\" or \"Dangerous Relations:\u00a0 Seducing The Billionaire\"\u00a0 or \"Dangerous Relations:\u00a0 Enticing The Billionaire.\" But that title is still up in the air.\u00a0<\/p>\n I do hope that more readers will make it a point to pick up a contemporary - particularly one of mine!\u00a0 It'll remind all of us\u00a0that all the excitement, spark and sizzle of love\u00a0didn't end with the Regency era.\u00a0 Love is as timeless and eternal as forever. We may\u00a0live in \"now\" rather than \"then,\" but we still\u00a0deserve\u00a0a happy ending - and some quacking good fun reaching it.\u00a0<\/p>\n Join us at QA Romances this year and\u00a0SPRING INTO A CONTEMPORARY!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I enjoy reading historicals and I adore writing them.\u00a0\u00a0But to me history is mood and it's part of the world I create for each book.\u00a0 I can alter events, rearrange them or create them\u00a0out of whole cloth.\u00a0 In\u00a0my\u00a0books everything exists to advance the story so that it follows my muse's twisted inclinations. It'll be a ...continue reading \"Spring Into A Contemporary\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}