{"id":3645,"date":"2013-08-19T21:37:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T01:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2013-08-19T21:37:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T01:37:37","slug":"a-contemporary-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/19\/a-contemporary-question\/","title":{"rendered":"A Contemporary Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

My last post mentioned romance author Marie Force's killer survey<\/a> in the context of my deciding that I needed to do more marketing through Facebook. \u00a0I haven't yet changed the format of QA's Facebook page<\/a> (click the link and like it -- I'll wait). \u00a0However, thanks to Marie's saavy tips, I have started doing more linking of my books complete with hashtags. \u00a0And it has helped so Marie was right about that - people do find books through Facebook. \u00a0This post is because I promised a follow up to delve into more of Marie's marvy info.<\/p>\n

Now, my question is about the survey's finding that contemporary romance has become more popular than historical romance - 27.55% of responding readers preferred contemporary to 23.15% preferring historical. \u00a0Why do I find that interesting? \u00a0Because my numbers don't bear that out at all. \u00a0My historicals sell far, far better than my contemporaries although I think the contemporaries are great books. \u00a0My personal sales ratio is about 85% to 15% in favor of the historicals.<\/p>\n

I'd LOVE, LOVE, LOVE for the contemporaries to catch up to the historicals in sales. \u00a0Heck, I'd cheer if they passed the historicals. \u00a0My historicals are composed entirely of my wicked, wacky and way warped imagination. \u00a0They're over the top tales where the heroes tend to be bad boys who fall in love as hard as they fell into risky, risque behavior. \u00a0My contemporary heroes share the over-the-top personna to a point, but those books also call upon knowledge I've gleaned from my \"day job\" - as a lawyer. My contemporaries all take place at that precarious point where love and the law meet. \u00a0It's a dangerous spot, which is why those books are my \"Dangerous Relations\" series.<\/p>\n

None of my contemporaries takes the reader inside the courtroom as much as Dangerous Relations: \u00a0Seducing the Billionaire<\/a>. That book starts in the Family Courtroom where the hero is divorcing his \"belle bitch\" wife. \u00a0It's a tricky endeavor because he doesn't want a separation from his soon-to-be ex's half sister, Rachel. \u00a0She's only 17, but the hero fell in love with her about a year earlier, when he rescued her from an abusive foster home. \u00a0She's been too young to allow her any idea of his real feelings, even if he hadn't been too married to show her. \u00a0But, at the beginning of the book, everything is about to change. \u00a0When it does, the hero finds himself in a Courtroom, where his only defense against felony charges is to show the jury his helpless adoration for the girl who vanished just when she could have saved him. \u00a0If you like love stories, trial stories or romantic suspense, you'll love Dangerous Relations: \u00a0Seducing The Billionaire<\/a>. \u00a0Pick it up and give it a read today - you'll be glad you did!<\/p>\n

My other two (2) contemporaries are also at the juncture of love and the law - at different stages. Dangerous Relations: Griffin's Law<\/a> is about a law student who commits the serious offense of falling in love with one of her professors. \u00a0And the professor? \u00a0He's hiding more than she could've ever imagined. \u00a0 Dangerous Relations: \u00a0The Office Ink<\/a> is about a young associate targeted by the law firm partner who hired her. \u00a0Too bad for her that she was also targeted by the partners brother. \u00a0And when Cupid's passing out flaming arrows, someone could die. \u00a0Did the young associate's boss kill the competition, brother or not?<\/p>\n

This post is my test marketing of my contemporaries. \u00a0Marie Force's survey<\/a> says contemporaries are outselling historicals. \u00a0Like I said earlier, my experience has been the opposite. \u00a0Will my numbers from this test prove Marie right or wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My last post mentioned romance author Marie Force's killer survey in the context of my deciding that I needed to do more marketing through Facebook. \u00a0I haven't yet changed the format of QA's Facebook page (click the link and like it -- I'll wait). \u00a0However, thanks to Marie's saavy tips, I have started doing more ...continue reading \"A Contemporary Question\"<\/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\/3645"}],"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=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}