Where my book wanted to be

 Just pushed the PUBLISH button on a new book!

Not 100% new, but 95% new. The general storyline has not altered but oh! I've spent so much time on  re-writing, improving and slanting it in a new direction, too - Romantasy.

I was never happy with my first attempt and when I started reading Romantasy, well  Wow! I thought, that was where my book wanted to be all the time.  So now it is there, and unashamedly promoted as that. Let's hope it does well. 

This is the first time I've deliberately aimed at one of the more niche genres and I can say it makes Promos a whole lot easier than trying to excite someone with a commonplace historical romance. It may take KDP 72 hours to have a book ready for a reader but I shall be watching all progress with an interested eye. One or two facts about Trust No Maid -

Setting: Ireland and north west Scotland

Period: around turn of 11th century

Characters: New heroine  appears but Olli, Flane, Emer and Skeggi featured in Far After Gold, as they did in Viking Bride and Viking Summer.

Romantasy

I read that there is a new sub-genre on the romance /historical fiction scene. 

This one is called Romantasy. It first appeared in 2023. Some say the genre appeals to those who grew up with Harry Potter - young adult fantasy - and want similar fantasy elements but with sex and romance thrown in.

All the core tropes for romance feature in romantasy and the main plot focus is romance but the setting is some imaginative world often with mythical creatures and epic quests. It should tempt all those who like dragons...but you need a vivid imagination for this kind of thing.


I guess the Regency purist readers will avoid it like the plague and so for them can I recommend my latest offering - definitely no mythical creatures, but lots of romance! in The Duke & Two Sisters.

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