Want to write something! and Harlequin Chat

[erastes]

Well both the novel edits are with someone else right now, so I have a few day's grace at the very least.

Now, what I have to do is to take my head out of the sand and actually DO something else. It worries me that I haven't even been THINKING about what to write next and it's the second week in February. As Steve Berman always says, the best way to sell your books is to write another one. But it's a worry.

There was a Harlequin Ask an Editor chat on Friday and of course I asked the question I've been asking Harlequin for years now, on a regular basis "Do you think HQN will have a range of print gay romances in the next few years?"

Sadly, the editor who answered said that he doubted it, but pointed out that Carina did some gay projects.  When I responded and said that, yes I was already with Carina, he replied and said it wasn't a problem with the subject matter (which, if true, is reassuring) but more a matter of market share. All I can say to that—although I didn't, because I don't have any figures to hand—is that I look at the hundreds of releases every month and wonder whether the publishers have any idea how many people are reading it. oh well. It will happen EVENTUALLY. Carina is a good step forward, at least.

There are daffodils out by the village pond. This is just Not Right. Off to Dad's.

Comments

[ali-wilde.livejournal.com]

You'd think that an editor with someone as big as Harlequin would have an idea of the market. Every time I see a newspaper or magazine article about gay romances, it mentions that the market is huge. Look at all these publishing houses that exist on gay romances alone. Seems that Harlequin are missing out big time.

[m-barnette.livejournal.com]

The big print publishers are always years behind the small press/ebook publishers.

Just look at how long it took them to realize that ebooks were the future of publishing.