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Maybe I Shouldn’t Write Romance After All?

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I was just checking out some of my reviews.

When you’re a writer, you know some people are going to enjoy what you write while others are going to think it sucks ass.

It isn’t easy to get bad reviews but I do try to learn from them.

I enjoy writing action/adventure.  I’m a pulp fiction gal at heart.  I love thrillers.  I love action.  I can even write some acceptable sexual tension.  But when it comes right down to the sex part, I’m a “fade-to-black” author.  I’m OK with that.  It might be best that way…

Book Lovers, inc. wasn’t really feeling my love.

“The characters weren’t described enough and emotion the story should convey didn’t touch my heart at all. When our two fell in love I really didn’t understand why besides one being a man and the other a woman. And the sex scenes weren’t as vibrant as they could have been.”

I can’t blame them.  I really don’t write for the traditional romance reader.  I thought “Transporter 3″ was a great romance so that could be part of the disconnect.

Bitten by Paranormal Romance was a little put off by my initial graphic violence.  Luckily the reviewer was kind.

“When I started reading this one — UH OH — What did I get myself into here? It is very gruesome and I didn’t know if I wanted to continue, but it is central to the storyline and it didn’t last too long. I was glad that I kept reading. I liked Dani’s spunkiness and her refusal to believe that she was in any way “gifted”. Too much time was wasted on Dani’s history, Mom and friend, Maria. I felt that could have been put to better use on Jeffery Wiles and his demon possession. Or the explanation of Enochian script and Moloch, the fallen angel.”

Jaime at Just Another Book Lover saw the opening scene a little differently.  This was the way it was meant to be seen.

“My favorite part of this story was the opening. Normally you would jump into the main character’s life directly before the plot starts to develop but Pietsch took a drastically different approach. The story opens in the point of view of who we find out is the villain through the entire book. We walk in the shoe of who seems to be a normal man until his thoughts turn to sneaking up into a kitchen and up a flight of stairs. It only took a few paragraphs to have me hooked on the story and in turn the book as a whole. I can easily say Frozen Hell had the best opening of the three stories.”

The important thing for me in reading these reviews is my story didn’t ruin the two other stories for these reviewers.  It isn’t easy being the weakest link on the romance chain but I can sleep at night knowing I can write the hell out of action and violence.

Isn’t that what every little girl wants to read?

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