What the future holds...
Hey everyone, I could use a little help!
I've been invited by Harlequin/Silhouette books to participate in an author's forum sponsored by the market research department. This forum is a way to take the temperature of the publishing community, so to speak. They want to publish the books that readers want. So they're asking readers...and yes...writers too, since we tend be in contact with lots of readers.
So, the help I need. If you'd like to have a say in the future of publishing, and influence what kinds of books you'll see on the shelves a year from now, two years from now, five years from now, send me an email (or post here) with your thoughts.
What I (and Harlequin/Silhouette) want to know, is what are you buying? What makes you pick up a book? Cover? Author name? Back cover blurb?
Have you tried anything new lately? A new author, a new genre? Made a move from one line to another, one type of book to another? If so, why? If not, why not?
What do you think publishing needs to do to get/keep people reading?
The focus of this forum is Harlequin/Silhouette, which publishes both category (series) romance and single titles, but I'd like to hear from you no matter what you read.
So drop me an email with your thoughts (there's a link on my bio page) or post here, and I'll represent your desires to the powers that be. Who knows...you just might have the idea that will change the industry. Not to mention provide you with a lot of quality reading in years to come.
Thanks in advance!
Vickie
I've been invited by Harlequin/Silhouette books to participate in an author's forum sponsored by the market research department. This forum is a way to take the temperature of the publishing community, so to speak. They want to publish the books that readers want. So they're asking readers...and yes...writers too, since we tend be in contact with lots of readers.
So, the help I need. If you'd like to have a say in the future of publishing, and influence what kinds of books you'll see on the shelves a year from now, two years from now, five years from now, send me an email (or post here) with your thoughts.
What I (and Harlequin/Silhouette) want to know, is what are you buying? What makes you pick up a book? Cover? Author name? Back cover blurb?
Have you tried anything new lately? A new author, a new genre? Made a move from one line to another, one type of book to another? If so, why? If not, why not?
What do you think publishing needs to do to get/keep people reading?
The focus of this forum is Harlequin/Silhouette, which publishes both category (series) romance and single titles, but I'd like to hear from you no matter what you read.
So drop me an email with your thoughts (there's a link on my bio page) or post here, and I'll represent your desires to the powers that be. Who knows...you just might have the idea that will change the industry. Not to mention provide you with a lot of quality reading in years to come.
Thanks in advance!
Vickie
posted by Vickie Taylor at 3:58 PM
1 Comments:
I love your writing style!! I haven't found another author like you! As for what I personally read... I really got into Romance a number of years ago. I started off reading all of Sandra Brown's books, then Jude Deveraux. A few weeks ago I read three or four Christian Romance novels. Just to change things up a bit, and a few weeks before that I read a great Vampire/ Romance novel, and quite a few Western ones.
It depends sometimes why I pick the books that I do. Sometimes it is the cover picture and title. I tend to go for things that don't look really cheesy. I find that most of the time the back blurb of the books that really sell me. Good ones catch my eye quick, by giving me just a little taste of what the pages hold.
I think that what publishers and also authors need to do to keep the good times goin, is come up with really fresh ideas. Sometimes with certain authors its like reading the same story over and over, book after book. And a lot of times the same geographic location gets over used. Id like to see a story set in cities or places that really haven't gotten used as much. Ever consider a modern story set in Colorado??? (My home state lol) Something like Carved in Stone is just wonderful, very fresh and exciting. Not a bit of cheese in it at all. I do like some stories set in the present, but also stories that take place long ago.
I just think you are a wonderful author, and hope that you keep up with our Gargoyles!
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