No one wants to be a one hit wonder.
You know, write that first book, or first series, and then struggle to find more success.
I was in this boat after the Nashvegas books.
Not that they were a break out… in fact, they weren’t at all.
So I had to decide what to write next that caught my publisher’s eye.
I was blessed to be at a house that believed in giving an author more than a one-contract chance.
But if I didn’t find some success soon, there was no reason for my publisher to continue with me.
I was writing chick lit but it was dying a quick death as a sub romance genre.
At an ACFW conference, I braved a conversation with my publisher. “What can I do to turn things around?”
“Well,” he said, “we’re not quite sure how to brand you.”
This really confused me. I wrote chick lit. Romance. How was it hard to brand me?
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