NOT FOR EVERYONE!
by Susan Kearney
What’s an author to do when she loves to write stories that some readers won’t even try? It’s a dilemma because writers need to pay their bills like everyone else, so we want to be popular with readers. At the same time, my taste has always been a bit outside the norm. Okay, if I’m honest, my taste is far from the norm. And when I wrote my first futuristic romance, the Rystani series, the books were way, way out there. Readers either loved or hated them. But I learned that many readers simply heard the word futuristic and thought–it’s not for me. The reasons were varied and interesting for not even giving the books a try. Some thought it would be too techie, too weird, too hard to understand or simply didn’t think they could relate. So I set out to write a book that would ease non-readers of futuristic romance into the genre. Lunar Heat was that story and I set the book mostly on Earth. I made sure to make one character an earth woman. Okay, I gave her a man from another world to love and a mission that tests her morally, emotionally and physically. And the romance had to be steamy. So I finished the book and you’d think an author’s work would be done, right? Wrong.
The next step was working on a cover. Lucky for me I got to pick the cover models, was there for the shoot and had a lot of say in the cover art. I wanted romance and a mood that would be inviting to romance readers. The cover was so important because I wanted to depict romance, because that’s what the story is. It’s romance that just happens to be set in the near future. And if there’s a side trip to the moon, please don’t let that throw you. It’s fun. And I promise…the science is underwhelming. So if you’ve never read a futuristic, I urge you to give this book a try. Perhaps you’ll fall in love with a new genre and even want to read the sequel Solar Heat. Um, got to admit, I when a bit further out into the galaxy on that one. 🙂
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