I finally found all the letters to the keyboard, except the function button. My kids made it their very fun hobby to pluck out letters and lose them everywhere. I bought a silicone one, the fourth keyboard I’ve had to buy this year, (the first 2 were drowned, this one was dismembered.) As soon as it arrived, my husband found the missing letters, hah!
Anyway, I was able to fix the edits for the second round editing and sent them to the editor. She has a line editor picked out too. I still don’t know what I’m going to do with it, maybe enter more contests and research agents. The eureka moment for me this past week was while going through the editors comments. I changed a few major things based on her suggestions, but some things I wrote on purpose that she feels would throw readers off. I was afraid to comment back since I’m new and she’s the expert, and I didn’t want her to think I was arguing, or too stubborn to change. But I realized if what I wanted to convey didn’t get across to her, it might not be clear to readers either. So hopefully she has ideas for me.
Another thing that came to me is that maybe my genre isn’t romance, and she’s considering romance readers. My books have romantic elements and happy ever after, the story is centralized around couples but have real life in them, not all knights in shiny armor, lots of tragedy, trigger warning worthy events but I want to show how people cope and survive, not for entertainment, like law and order right? SVU is focused on catching the guy and getting justice, it doesn’t care much about the victim her or his self or what life is like for them now. Traditional romance readers aren’t into that, they like hallmark, so do I, so I don’t want to mislead anyone who would potentially pick my books up and have to stop reading them if I didn’t properly label them and warn them.
So I don’t know what genre I am. Maybe is that called dark romance? or women’s fiction? could be either or both. I was on twitter for Pitmad, I used the romance, and women’s fiction tags. The first book isn’t dark, its the cutest one of them all, but the next two get pretty dark, and honestly based on true events. Plus I am afraid of people liking the first one and not being able to finish the rest of the books so should I warn people in advance on the 1st one that they would hate the next 2? or am I overreacting like a crazy person. Either way, I put life lessons and an overall moral lesson across all of them that I’ve learned myself of the last 30 some years that I hope to help other people with. Even if I don’t make any money, if I helped anyone at all, I’d call myself a success.
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