Things I Already Know People Won’t Like About Firebrand

About half-way through the first round of edits on Firebrand, and then the Beta Crew can take delivery of it and I’ll kick it out of my head until it comes back red-pencilled. As is usual at this stage, I’m noticing things people won’t like about it and thinking ‘Well, I like it’. Thing the […]

Steampunk Is Not The New Paranormal

Really interesting article from Heather Massey here: Why Has Paranormal Romance Taken Off, but Not Steampunk Romance? Personally, I think the problems come down to: A) People on the covers of steampunk novels have an embarrassing tendency to look like LARPers. I don’t know why this is, particularly as there are far more vampire LARPs […]