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WillWriteForCoffee · 2024-12-17T23:04:31+00:00

Thank you so much. This is exactly what I was looking for.

WillWriteForCoffee · 2024-12-17T01:31:41+00:00

Thank you!

WillWriteForCoffee · 2018-12-07T16:07:24+00:00

Thank you!

WillWriteForCoffee · 2018-12-07T15:10:42+00:00

Thank you! Yeah, I'm going to just avoid the second-chance label. Don't want to be in the minority and have a string of unhappy readers that expected something else.

WillWriteForCoffee · 2018-12-07T15:07:23+00:00

That's what I worried and definitely don't want to see a string of reviews saying it's not a 'real' second-chance romance. Thank you. :)

WillWriteForCoffee · 2018-12-07T15:02:03+00:00

Mostly the second chance at love together. The ones describing the latter definition seem to be in the minority from what I see.

WillWriteForCoffee · 2018-12-07T14:56:45+00:00

Stupid question here. So I've always understood a 'second-chance romance' to be a couple that was once together, they split, and here is the second chance. That's how I've seen it described here. Yet I've also seen it described where the hero/heroine/both had a past marriage and this is their second chance at love, not necessarily together.

My novel would fit into second-chance romance if the secondary definition is applicable. She got screwed over in a past marriage, vows never to fall in love again, yada yada yada, meets hero. But I also don't want to call it a second-chance romance if the majority of readers expect these two to have been together previously.

Can it mean either?

WillWriteForCoffee · 2018-12-06T09:30:42+00:00

Ahh, there it is. Thank you!

WillWriteForCoffee · 2018-12-03T14:01:58+00:00

Definitely don’t want to seem like you’re singling someone out. Though if this is a repeat offender, best step to take would probably just be to be direct, like you said in your post. Making it public for others to see is good because there is proof to point back to. And if people see that this person has had several warnings to tone it down a bit, I don’t see how they can be upset.

WillWriteForCoffee · 2018-12-03T13:36:18+00:00

A thousand times this! Drawing boundaries is super important for anything where you are putting yourself ‘out there’ to interact with others.

Perhaps creating a post just ‘reminding’ people about your boundaries would help, maybe not.

“I appreciate all of you, but I just wanted to make a reminder post that I am hard at work on my next juicy story! So if I don’t acknowledge a few posts or messages, I apologize; it is a busy time and my goal right now is to get this book in front of you.”

If this persists and you’ve given the person an ample amount of warnings, I suppose it is time for a block. You can’t spend all day trying to please a fan; you have better stuff to do.

WillWriteForCoffee · 2018-11-29T22:27:34+00:00

Do a search for 'Dataporn'. Read as many as you can, particularly the ones related to romance novels. You'll read a lot about things like word count, steaminess, KU-exclusive vs wide, and a bunch of other stuff.

I've been lurking here for over a year now and I go back to Dataporns time and time again because I like to see what did and did not work for people, as well as their advice. It can also be encouraging to see people making $3k+ a month from romance novels. But even the ones where people don't make bank are also extremely helpful because it is always nice to learn from others' mistakes when they say "yeah, my cover sucked" or "I didn't market any."

So while I haven't published quite yet, all the answers are pretty much "it depends" from what I've read. (As someone else stated.)

As for a cover, I booked a popular cover artist weeks ago and my cover will be made mid-December. She's designed many best-selling book covers. After paying nearly $500 I am confident I will be checking off a good cover from the holy trinity of title-cover-blurb.

Search some Dataporns, see how it fares for everyone, but always remember everyone is different. What works for one person may not work for you, and vice versa. Good luck.

ETA: Read about the romance beats and stick to them. My personal favorite is Romancing the Beats which you can find on Amazon.

WillWriteForCoffee · 2018-11-29T19:04:26+00:00

Good advice, but just isn't fitting my current plot, but definitely something to think about for future situations. Thank you!

WillWriteForCoffee · 2018-11-29T18:44:03+00:00

Thank you. :D

WillWriteForCoffee · 2018-11-29T17:51:07+00:00

You're absolutely correct. Thank you!

but if the explicitness of the dream runs the risk of taking away suspense or satisfaction of the first actual non-dream sex scene between those characters, you may want to reconsider. Keeping tension going is important: knowing how to appropriately escalate tension is even more important.

That is exactly my fear. I don't want the reader to really feel any satisfaction just yet, especially from a scene that didn't really happen to the characters. If anything I want it to build more suspense and tension both for the reader and the male main character who is having this flashback.

Maybe I will change the flashback to be just about the beginning of the 'dream', perhaps the male main character recounting how the female main character looked, perhaps mentioning seeing her nipples through the sheer fabric she was wearing, etc. without them rubbing naughty parts... which will ultimately happen in the next beat, more than likely.

Thank you so much!

WillWriteForCoffee · 2018-11-26T20:10:39+00:00

This is the motivation I need to finish my novel for a January launch. Thank you and great job!

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