Good Day All,
First post, love this forum....such a great place to creep
. But I've finally decided to step into the fray and ask for some honest thoughts. I'm posting here because my story, while super sexy (no fade to black), there is a very real love story that I think readers would care about.(Or maybe I should post in Erotica? Anyways...)
Currently toying with a steamy erotic romance story where my ending is less than happily ever after (for now). My current direction is having the M/F leads part under rather tragic circumstances in the end, with full intentions of continuing the (happier) story fast forwarded 5-10 years in the future as a stand alone second novel.
Would romance readers/potential publishers be pissed if I did this? My reasoning for the two-parter is the time lapse would either have to be fully explored (grief...sadness...anger...not very romantic..) which I'm not sure I'm prepared to or even want to explore. I think it would take up considerable page space to do it justice.
The premise of the second novel would have our heroine now adjusted to her life without #1 (possibly single mom to child he never knew about.) and finding love with sexy younger guy over a summer in a seaside town.?...only to have #1 return...oooo the sexy conflict. Reader A could conceivably pick up Book 2 and read it without being too discombobulated (and want to go back and read Book1)
Or would readers/publishers be OK with say a circa 2005-2010 "end scene" followed by a glossed over fast tracked time warp to 2015...would they find that too jarring?
Basically, I can do two smaller novels or one larger one....any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks in advance, love and light!
Maggs
First post, love this forum....such a great place to creep
. But I've finally decided to step into the fray and ask for some honest thoughts. I'm posting here because my story, while super sexy (no fade to black), there is a very real love story that I think readers would care about.(Or maybe I should post in Erotica? Anyways...)Currently toying with a steamy erotic romance story where my ending is less than happily ever after (for now). My current direction is having the M/F leads part under rather tragic circumstances in the end, with full intentions of continuing the (happier) story fast forwarded 5-10 years in the future as a stand alone second novel.
Would romance readers/potential publishers be pissed if I did this? My reasoning for the two-parter is the time lapse would either have to be fully explored (grief...sadness...anger...not very romantic..) which I'm not sure I'm prepared to or even want to explore. I think it would take up considerable page space to do it justice.
The premise of the second novel would have our heroine now adjusted to her life without #1 (possibly single mom to child he never knew about.) and finding love with sexy younger guy over a summer in a seaside town.?...only to have #1 return...oooo the sexy conflict. Reader A could conceivably pick up Book 2 and read it without being too discombobulated (and want to go back and read Book1)
Or would readers/publishers be OK with say a circa 2005-2010 "end scene" followed by a glossed over fast tracked time warp to 2015...would they find that too jarring?
Basically, I can do two smaller novels or one larger one....any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Many thanks in advance, love and light!
Maggs
