This was very helpful and covered tons of stuff. She is great, thank you. I couldn’t get the slides now so I took a screenshot of each one to print off and make notes on. Regarding age, I think it’s an emerging market, especially for Indie writers. It’s so narrow minded of publishers to think that older people don’t have romantic relationships! But they don’t own the Indie market, do they? I got married to my amazing husband six years ago when I was 58! Age doesn’t change those feelings. Bear in mind I was in my mid-30’s when Bridget Jones came out. Myself and all those women of that age who lapped that up are still here, thankfully! Ignoring that group just because we aged is gob-smacking. I plan to go with that niche. Thanks again!
very good and useful lecture for new writers.I hope we will be given chance to attend such amazing lectures in future.Thanks Emily, Jacob and the team .
Thanks for the lecture. It was enlightening and reinforced in my mind that the novel I just finished is not a romance, although it has many of the elements that make up a romance. First of all, my novel has two main characters, but the protagonist is male. It clocks in at 145 K words. It is paranormal, SCI-FI, mystery. But at the center is the love story. The novel absolutely does not work without the love story. Seems to me that there should be a genre of books that overlaps with the romance genre but broadens the rule set. For example, encapsulates a male character's journey, just as Women's Fiction follows a woman's journey. Many men want to read a good love story, but the romance genre as it currently exists makes it hard to find novels that hit our sweet spot. Don't get me wrong, there are no doubt many good romance novels out there. But there are niches still to be filled, be it in the romance genre or some other genre.
Might as well change the title to "How to Write Romance Novels Readers Will Buy". This was about marketing. Writing should be the essential part, and it does not feel like it was in this case.
