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clean or definitely erotic romance you have choices mystery fan there s hard boiled cozy cats and shoe fetish cutesy female sleuth male sleuth whatever you want and more as the respectability of e publishing expands it is becoming more complex as readers and writers conspire to push the envelopes genre bending has become a fine art some as intricate as any cordon bleu recipe there are mysteries with long dead sleuths solving current crimes romances between earthers and alien species talking animal sleuths just about any permutation you can think of including nymphomaniac vampire nuns from the planet zeon all of which is great for the reader and the writer genre shouldn t be a pigeonhole it should be a doorway or maybe a hall with lots of doorways leading off it the only thing that should control what content is available is what the reader wants to read and the writer wants to write posted by susan at wednesday march 20 2024 3 comments email this blogthis share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest labels genre fiction genre bending janis patterson janis susan may publishers readers writers wednesday february 21 2024 time fate and choices by janis patterson how did it get to be the end of february already 2024 is almost 1 6th over and i haven t even started some of the things i hoped to have finished already the husband says i set my goals to high that i believe i can accomplish much more than i reasonably can he s probably a little bit right i m getting older and though i am not a morbid person it s quite obvious that there is less time in front of me than behind sigh so i am determined to make that time count the problem is if i lived another fifty years and never had a single idea from this very minute i would not be able to write all the books that are currently living in my brain but with such a short relatively i m not that old yet time left how do i decide which project deserves my attention there are 2 3 books lined up about my rich older lady sleuth flora melkiot who would doubtless harm me if i called her elderly there are another 2 3 books already pretty much plotted as much as i ever plot about contract archaeologist rachel petrie lurking deep in the shadows is a tentative idea for another story about researcher mindy mcmann and those are just ideas about my various some of them embryonic series there is the epic family saga loosely based on my own family which has teased me for years beginning with my great grandmother who came from scotland back in the 1850s there is a decidedly controversial alternative history murder mystery there is a non fiction history i am burning to write and there are more many more the d mnable thing is that they are all important at least important to me there are other things too time with my husband doing whatever appeals to us at the moment there are trips we want to take long leisurely trips that we have dreamed of for years time with extended family some of whom are older than we and the time we have with them is to be cherished obligations to beloved organizations my political activism time to spend with friends new adventures too some we probably haven t even thought of yet my father was a consummate wordsmith who played with the classic latin phrase tempus fugit time passes making it into tempus is a fugitin well tempus is indeed a fugitin and i m not sure i like it when i was a child i couldn t wait to grow up childhood was so stultifying the years seemed to drag as slowly as an arthritic snail until the time i could be regarded as a human being with wants and desires and opinions instead of as a mere child to be directed and taught and kept from participating because i was young the only good thing was that the future shining and endless stretched before me in a tantalizing road now though time is on fast forward speeding past at a rate that seems to surpass the speed of light that is not heartening i have read of several authors who are officially retiring a choice i really cannot understand the thought of a life without writing is beyond my comprehension i must admit i would like a respite from a continuing onslaught of deadlines and a softer schedule but to retire to quit writing completely that would be like cutting off a piece of myself writing has been a part of my life for an astonishing number of years i wrote my first novel at four the complete total now hangs somewhere in the region of a hundred in the intervening years i have written films advertising articles edited a couple of multi magazine publishing groups just about anything that uses words i cannot picture a life without words any more than i can picture a life without breathing so why am i sitting here musing instead of creating dunno guess i gotta get busy i have a deadline posted by susan at wednesday february 21 2024 7 comments email this blogthis share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest labels janis susan may janis patterson old age priorities series time writing wednesday january 17 2024 back to the grindstone by janis patterson for those of you who don t know my mammoth 22 novel republishing blitz ended on october 25 thank goodness re releasing a book every other wednesday for most of a year was exhausting i managed to keep going through about half of november but was so wrung out that with the holiday season coming up my wonderful husband put his foot down and told me i was taking the rest of the year off his dictum was a blessing and a curse i did sneak in some writing something which i had neglected shamefully during the constant work of the blitz but also managed a strange and rare pleasure rest after far too many frozen dinners take out and restaurant meals i rediscovered the joys of the kitchen and the first part of december we went to germany for a tour of bavarian christmas markets one of our favorite trips until lufthansa got involved i am still at war with that airline our luggage had been checked through to stuttgart but along the way we were informed that the last leg of our trip had been cancelled meaning we stopped in frankfurt airport itself one of the seven circles of hell but our bags went on to stuttgart except they didn t i got my bag back i snatched it from the hands of a thief no less but the husband s never appeared meaning we had to spend the first day of the tour buying him new clothes and other essentials an expense we had not anticipated over a week after we got home lufthansa called saying his bag had been found but we couldn t have it because we hadn t filled out a certain lost bag form that none of the half dozen lufthansa employees we talked to ever told us we should fill out when we found this out we of course tried to fill out the form only to find that it would not accept the dates of our flights lufthansa still has the bag they know it is ours but they refuse to send it to us because we have not filled out a form that their lost bag system refuses to accept wonder how much lufthansa makes from the sale of unclaimed luggage after all it is found money just be very careful if you ever are cursed to fly lufthansa or its cohort united and it s not just us i was surprised to find their customer service satisfaction rating is in the cellar so after my december vacation i have to get back to writing and it s hard harder than i expected i have gotten to like sleeping late in the morning and being able to do things during the day besides staring at a screen and i do have encouragement in the form of deadlines my blogs my newsletter two novella contracts which are due alarmingly soon to say nothing of the books i want to write on my own two of which are so tantalizingly close to completion but still it is so hard to sit down at the one eyed monster of my computer open a file and create something from nothing but imagination and caffeine never forget the caffeine i have written professionally for most of my life i was first paid for writing when i was nine years old and on the whole loved it writing is part of my being as much a part of me as the color of my eyes or the shape of my chin i cannot imagine living the rest of my life without writing just the next few weeks leisure is so insidiously addictive but like cranky old wells one sometimes has to prime the pump to break the vacuum and make the water flow and that is what this ill tempered screed has appeared to do the act of writing this blog of seeing my fingers move over the keys and the black squiggles of letters and words appear on the screen is both soothing and invigorating i might even open up one of my novella files and see if the feeling continues or i might just go take a nap posted by susan at wednesday january 17 2024 3 comments email this blogthis share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest labels christmas markets janis patterson janis susan may lufthansa airlines overwork republishing novels theft vacations wednesday november 15 2023 a decadent rest well earned by janis patterson i am so happy and so tired my republishing blitz is over twenty two books each re edited re formatted and most with new covers one released every other wednesday without fail from 15 january to 25 october of course it was a totally mad idea and about three quarters of the way through it i was starting to doubt if i could follow through as well as about my sanity that s kind of silly since my middle name might as well be stubborn and my pride wouldn t allow me to quit so i didn t but i am so happy it is all over this project took up so much of my time i only did two new books this year instead of my regular four or five so is my husband bless him he has had to put up with sketchy meals late laundry and seeing nothing for hours but the top of my head as i bent over the computer this year we did manage a few excursions though a conference for him in hot springs a speaking engagement for me in arkansas a long delayed couple of days visit with my dearest friend in the world the ninc conference in florida for both of us a day of diamond digging and no i didn t find anything except a few muscles i didn t know i had ouch as an early christmas present my wonderful husband is taking us to germany for a week long tour of bavarian christmas markets we ve done this tour before so i m really looking forward to it i also know it will be exhausting and the husband has laid down the law i cannot take a computer know something i don t really mind the idea of a rest from words is irresistible so i have decided to take the rest of the year off doesn t that sound decadent i won t even be doing a blog in december but i will be back in january rested and full of tales and probably ideas for new books hope you all have a bountiful thanksgiving a very merry christmas and a happy new year posted by susan at wednesday november 15 2023 no comments email this blogthis share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest labels janis susan may christmas market germany janis patterson republishing blitz writing wednesday october 18 2023 the end is nigh by janis patterson for every beginning there is an ending and conversely for every ending there is a beginning and sometimes it s hard to tell the difference this year has been a landmark year for me it s been one of the lowest output years for me in well over a decade only two books as opposed to the four or five i usually do and yet i ve been busier than i ever have in case you have been living under a rock and not heard about my republishing blitz i m going to give you a quick précis during the covid crazies i got very lazy the husband was home and even retired during this time s0 we had things to do and my writing business came in a distant second to being with him i knew that rights on previously published books were coming back to me but being distracted by other things i just let the reversion letters pile up on my computer until january of this year life was returning to a semblance of normal and i realized i wasn t getting any younger are any of us and if i wanted to get back into this writing thing i had to get busy so a good start would be republishing those reverted books through my own company a quick wander through my hard drive shocked me because there were 26 yes twenty six of the little beasties gulp a quick perusal decided me that for various reasons four of them were going permanently under the bed hopefully never to be seen again that left 22 to be republished as i am lazy doing that could possibly take a couple of years years which i might not have as i was raised in advertising and journalism the fact that deadlines are sacred is bred into my blood and bones my father taught me that to use his words there is only one excuse for you to miss a deadline and that is death yours so i set myself a deadline i would release a book freshly edited freshly formatted and most with new covers every other wednesday until all were out starting on january 15 mistletoe magic the last book comes out october 25 22 books released every other wednesday each on schedule each reworked as promised and all without missing a single release day actually there were 24 released one through one of my publishers and the other as an outlier which appeared suddenly through a set of circumstances too complex to go in to neither of which i counted as part of the blitz i m exhausted i would love to take a few weeks off away from the computer but i have deadlines one for a july 4th mystery anthology one for my new flora melkiot book and one for a summer regency romance anthology sigh even though we spend our days pretty much in the same room the den the husband says i spend more time with the computer and my invisible friends than with him and lately he s been right i ve taken my computer along on every trip we ve made this year and it saved my sometimes tenuous sanity the days we were holed up in a motel in mississippi when he fell ill on our way home from ninc anyway the blitz is now over and the encroaching deadlines await it doesn t get any easier people it really doesn t and now for some good news exercise is murder is now available in audio from audible the ebook is available from amazon and will hopefully be available in paperback before too long it is the first appearance of the redoubtable flora melkiot posted by susan at wednesday october 18 2023 5 comments email this blogthis share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest labels janis patterson janis susan may republishing wednesday september 20 2023 it s all in your point of view by janis patterson people who don t write don t believe that stories and characters take on a life of their own and if you don t agree with them the story stops writers know what i mean now my writing process i have been told is different from most others there are many ways to write plot wheels detailed outlines multi page character interviews etc to me personally that is the fastest way to kill a story by the time 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