3 Reasons not to read my books
You don’t like romantic plotlines. I cannot ever seeing myself writing a book that doesn’t have a romantic element. I just enjoy it too much! True, I always try to make the romance secondary to whatever the book’s Big Thing is, but it’s going to be there.
You want your romance spicy. “But you just said--!” I know, I know, I’m a hypocrite. While I love romance in books, I also cannot see myself ever writing a full on sex scene. Call me a prude all you like, I just think some things still deserve a little mystery. Sex is one of those things. That said, I don’t like calling my books “clean romance” or “sweet romance” even though technically they may fall under that category. Clean Romance sounds judgmental to me, like there are people who think that sex in and of itself is unclean (it’s not, God invented it), and Sweet Romance also doesn’t quite fit because some of my characters have decidedly un-sweet things happen to them. Same with “wholesome romance,” if that’s even a category.
Differs by genre:
For historical fiction, you want 100% total historical accuracy. I spend an enormous amount of time researching my historical fiction. But at the end of the day, it’s a novel, not a history textbook.
For fantasy, you want wizards and magic and stuff like that. I love Harry Potter! I stood in line at midnight at Books A Million when books 4-7 were released! I also love The Lord of the Rings (movies, lol)! Those books are fab and have certainly earned their place in the canon of fantasy literature. But they are very high fantasy and when it comes to writing, that’s just not my thing.