So, Melanie, what have you been up to?
Yeah, I've been a little quiet over here since December, haven't I?
Well, for one thing, I'm...well, I was going to say I've been dipping my toe into the field of erotic romance, but seeing as I've sold a short story, a novelette and my first novel to Evernight Publishing in the last five months, I don't think that quite counts as a toe. It's more along the lines up "up to my neck." The novel, Storm Season, is the first in a proposed six book series, and I'm about two weeks away from finishing up Behind the Iron Cross, the ER set in 1923 Berlin. Oh, and the horrible people who call themselves my friends on Facebook have somehow talked me into doing a racy Regency ER with the working title Corrupting Lord Rupert (possibly inspired by Rupert Graves, but you didn't hear that from me). And I promised that if the novelette "A Boon by Moonlight" gets good reviews and sales, I'll write a full-length novel about the characters. So, yeah, that's 2013 and much of 2014 set up for me.
And no, I'm not giving up writing science fiction. For one thing, I love science fiction far too much to abandon it. For another thing, the novel and novelette both have heavy fantasy and SF elements (or as I put it in my submission letter for the novel, "When people hear the words 'erotic romance,' they don't normally think of Greek Gods, bioengineering, nanotechnology, or Alan Turing, but that's what they get with this book"). Really, I'm just branching out into SF and paranormal stuff with a lot of explicit sex.
That, by the way, is why I'm doing erotic romance. I like writing about sex, and as it turns out I'm pretty damned good at it. It sells well right now, so what the hell, why not. And since I'm just using a pseudonym to separate my SF stuff from my erotic romance stuff, you can find me at Evernight Publishing and other places under the name Nicola Cameron.
So yeah, that's me. And now, back to writing.
Well, for one thing, I'm...well, I was going to say I've been dipping my toe into the field of erotic romance, but seeing as I've sold a short story, a novelette and my first novel to Evernight Publishing in the last five months, I don't think that quite counts as a toe. It's more along the lines up "up to my neck." The novel, Storm Season, is the first in a proposed six book series, and I'm about two weeks away from finishing up Behind the Iron Cross, the ER set in 1923 Berlin. Oh, and the horrible people who call themselves my friends on Facebook have somehow talked me into doing a racy Regency ER with the working title Corrupting Lord Rupert (possibly inspired by Rupert Graves, but you didn't hear that from me). And I promised that if the novelette "A Boon by Moonlight" gets good reviews and sales, I'll write a full-length novel about the characters. So, yeah, that's 2013 and much of 2014 set up for me.
And no, I'm not giving up writing science fiction. For one thing, I love science fiction far too much to abandon it. For another thing, the novel and novelette both have heavy fantasy and SF elements (or as I put it in my submission letter for the novel, "When people hear the words 'erotic romance,' they don't normally think of Greek Gods, bioengineering, nanotechnology, or Alan Turing, but that's what they get with this book"). Really, I'm just branching out into SF and paranormal stuff with a lot of explicit sex.
That, by the way, is why I'm doing erotic romance. I like writing about sex, and as it turns out I'm pretty damned good at it. It sells well right now, so what the hell, why not. And since I'm just using a pseudonym to separate my SF stuff from my erotic romance stuff, you can find me at Evernight Publishing and other places under the name Nicola Cameron.
So yeah, that's me. And now, back to writing.