an embezzler/identity thief who collects looney tunes action figures. Be easier to market if it was. But alas no. It doesn't quite fit in any genre neatly...sort of literary, sort of contemporary edgy, sort of noir, sort of mystery...it defies description - hence the self-publishing. LOL!
Sounds interesting. And a challenge for marketing.
Then I tell them to myself and think...okay stuck now. My difficulty with my own stories - is I need it to be more than a romance to keep my interest...so it will often turn into a suspense thriller or action adventure halfway through
I can enjoy them straight, but I agree that the good ones have more to them. That's part of what Milan does that I like so much. She seems to be developing an theme in each of them. And one aspect I liked of the first few Hoyte's that I read was that she added POV's that had independent thoughts/actions/views.
Wrote one in my head about an attorney who was trying to take down a airplane manufacturing tycoon, who she holds responsible for her father's death in a private plane crash - along with various others. She falls for a messenger who works for the company (but he's in reality the tycoon) and he falls for her. Her half-sister, who she's estranged from works for him. I had plot twists and everything...then, I lost interest and it sort of died.
Sounds interesting! But, yeah, I understand how when you are thinking through these things the urge sort of dies.
One thing I discovered when thinking through one, is how difficult it is to pull off dual protagonists. I have a group of Victorian romances in my head, and in the first one I first thought it was too hero-centric so I tried to think up what was going on with the heroine. By the time I developed the heroine's story, it had taken over the hero's... and now the whole story is so complicated that I keep trying to think of ways to simplify because now TOO MUCH would be going on.
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Date: 2014-12-08 07:33 pm (UTC)Sounds interesting. And a challenge for marketing.
Then I tell them to myself and think...okay stuck now.
My difficulty with my own stories - is I need it to be more than a romance to keep my interest...so it will often turn into a suspense thriller or action adventure halfway through
I can enjoy them straight, but I agree that the good ones have more to them. That's part of what Milan does that I like so much. She seems to be developing an theme in each of them. And one aspect I liked of the first few Hoyte's that I read was that she added POV's that had independent thoughts/actions/views.
Wrote one in my head about an attorney who was trying to take down a airplane manufacturing tycoon, who she holds responsible for her father's death in a private plane crash - along with various others. She falls for a messenger who works for the company (but he's in reality the tycoon) and he falls for her. Her half-sister, who she's estranged from works for him. I had plot twists and everything...then, I lost interest and it sort of died.
Sounds interesting! But, yeah, I understand how when you are thinking through these things the urge sort of dies.
One thing I discovered when thinking through one, is how difficult it is to pull off dual protagonists. I have a group of Victorian romances in my head, and in the first one I first thought it was too hero-centric so I tried to think up what was going on with the heroine. By the time I developed the heroine's story, it had taken over the hero's... and now the whole story is so complicated that I keep trying to think of ways to simplify because now TOO MUCH would be going on.