I’m working through final edits on my upcoming holiday romance, SNOWY NIGHTS & MR. RIGHT. This is my second contemporary title this year and marks a directional change for me. Over the past thirteen years that I’ve been writing romance I’ve focused primarily on my paranormal and romantasy titles. I even thought for several years that contemporary romance just wasn’t my thing. Then I took a trip to Dublin and by the time my plane touched down at home I was halfway through a contemporary book that was eating my brain and all but writing itself. SOMEDAY IN DUBLIN became one of my bestsellers, and since then, I’ve tried to throw in a contemporary book now and then to my yearly selection of titles. While I’ve had steady sales on my paranormal and romantasy novels, the truth is my contemporaries are now outselling them, particularly at in-person events.

With that in mind, I decided to regroup, pull out my folder full of book ideas, and plot a new strategy. Starting this year, I am limiting my paranormal/romantasy books to one new title per year (and some of those titles will be novella anthologies). The other two titles for the year will be contemporary, and part of a new themed “collection.” I put the quotes there because these books are all stand-alone stories but will feature similar rhyming titles. We began this year with the hugely popular DARING DEEDS & SMUTTY READS, will continue with SNOWY NIGHTS & MR. RIGHT, and in the spring of next year, you’ll get my next rhyming offering (bouncing between two ideas at the moment – I’ll have that settled soon).

I’m very happy to introduce my Rhyming Hooks, Steamy Books collection. I already have over thirty titles in the works, so I’ll be chugging these out for years to come. Now tell me- which sound more fun for next spring? A romance about rivals competing at a Lego master builder contest? Or a romance about a harried personal assistant assigned to babysit a major Hollywood heartthrob hunk who’s rebuilding after a fall from grace? Please comment and let me know.