I’ve noticed my interest in my current novel has flagged of late. It’s just hard to write for some reason. I think it has to do with knowing that, even if I do manage to sell a novel some day, there’s just not that big an audience for Sci-fi/fantasy compared to other genres. Advances on fantasy novels, for example, maybe run around $5000, whereas a children’s book can pull in $100,000. It’s not fair, necessarily, but it’s the reality. I may as well embrace it. Writing what you love is all fine and good, but if you don’t make much money at it, what’s the point?
So, I’ve decided it’s time to change my focus. I’m dropping my current project and starting something new and more marketable. It’ll be about a teenage girl whose parents buy this old manor house out on the edge of the woods, not realizing the place is haunted by the family who lived (and died) there over a hundred years ago. The ghost family, of course, want the new occupants to leave–all except their teenage son, who takes a liking to the girl. The two of them decide to work together to try and reconcile the two families, and over time they form a bond that transcends time and physicality. It’ll be the ultimate forbidden romance–they can never truly be together, and not just because their families want to keep them apart.
Yeah, enough of this fantasy nonsense. I’m going where the money is. I’m going to write teen paranormal romance from now on. Starting tomorrow. It’s bad luck to start a novel on the first day of April. Tradition holds that nothing you write will ever be believable.
Good idea, Thom <3 🙂
And a happy April FOOLS day to you too!
Hehe Funny!!
Okay, it was a joke (with apologies to Mom Virvalo, who may not have heard about April Fools Day over here).
Actually, though, that story idea does sound like fun. I may still write it…some day. But no, I’m not going to write a particular genre just because I think it will make more money. I will continue to write the stories I want to write, whether I ever make a penny or not.
But the joke may be on me in the end, as now I can’t get the idea out of my head. It may not end up being a paranormal teen romance, but I’m going to have to write this story–or whatever it mutates into–sooner or later.
I thought the story sounded pretty cool, despite the joke! 🙂
Nothing you write is EVER believable.
Certainly not my checks. 😉
Hahahaha! I think you have a handle on the whole paranormal romance thing, though.
I like the idea, too. That could be a really fun series. One thing for sure, it will be chaste. 😀 And if you have a problem with those checks on a moral basis of selling your soul, just send them over and I’ll find an immoral home for them.