I’m also starting a blog on Live Journal and I’m planning to link it with this one. Meanwhile, maybe you can help me with a little market research!<\/p>\n
If you’ve been reading this blog, some of this background will be familiar–I just finished a draft of a paranormal romantic suspense novel, ONE BLOOD. It is a prequel to my first published book, DANCE WITH THE DRAGON, so the events in this book have to sync up with the start of that one. Unfortunately, that book was written around 2000, and certain details about current events and popular technology may seem out of date now. My publisher says re-issuing the book would be a problem, which I understand, so I’m thinking of setting the prequel a couple of years earlier, in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n
My question to prospective readers: If you picked up a “thriller” novel and read on the flyleaf that it was deliberately set in the late 1990s–with a suggestion that the story arc would eventually take the characters into the post-9\/11 era–would that intrigue you or turn you off? Would you think, “Why would I want to read a book set in the near-past that isn’t ‘historical’?” Or would you judge it strictly on the basis of the story, the writing, etc.? <\/p>\n
I’d appreciate honest feedback! Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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