Hi guys :)
New release! New release from me as Rachel Randall!
It's another shorter length story that came out yesterday, and stars a hero based on that luscious Tom Hardy fellow. (How the fuck could I resist? I couldn't.)
It's got shopping as foreplay! Voyeurism! Smutty texts! Extreme sexual tension! A great review already! Not as many exclamation points as this sentence! And I had SO much fun writing it.
More details on my website here!Logging in to LJ, I can hardly believe it's not only a month and a half since my last post, but a month and a half into the new year. Work has been....non-stop. And when I've not been working, I've been trying to write, though I must admit, that's not been going so well at the moment. Too many ideas; having trouble picking the one that I'm going to sit down and devote the time to. Excuses, excuses.
It's funny -- I never thought of myself as a particularly slow writer, but I am glacial compared to the productivity of other people, and that's a problem in this business. Writing erotic romance is so incredibly competitive, and it's really being driven home to me that if you don't have releases coming out, well, practically every month, it's a big problem for visibility in what can only be described as an over-saturated market.
I'm trying. I've got this lovely story coming out now, and one I'm particularly proud of coming out at the end of March (Playing with Prudence, a 30k mid-Victorian threesome with BDSM elements, from three different POVs). But argh, disaster, nothing in the pipeline after that.
I'm slowly coming around to the realisation that I can only write as fast as I can write, and if I don't enjoy it, there's not much point. I've had really good reader responses to my three releases so far, so I think I'm on the right track with the tone and the setting of these books. I've got great ideas and grandiose plans for branching out with submissions to the bigger e-publishers. I've just got to *do* it all, you know? But without draining all the joy from sitting down to type because of totally self-imposed pressure. Much, much easier said than done for me :(
Anyhow, LOL, on that cheery note, I hope you're all well, and that winter doesn't have you down (because the daylight hours are getting longer dammit, they are!). I have other exciting personal news: I'm going to New Zealand with
blythely at the end of the month. We'll be there for most of March, and we're stopping in Hong Kong for three days on the way. I can't tell you how amazing it is to know that (a) I'm going to be doing such (for me) adventurous travel, (b) we'll be escaping winter and grey grey Europe, and (c) my best girl is taking me home to her strange land of long white clouds. Seriously can't wait.
xo
