What’s Love got to do with it?: Guest Post on Romance
Today I am over at Books and Kisses, writing about the use of romance in my Victorian San Francisco Mystery series. Do come over and visit.
Victorian San Francisco Mystery Series––Cozy-style
When I first published Maids of Misfortune, book one in my Victorian San Francisco Mystery series, I placed it in the historical and women sleuth mystery categories on Amazon. Since the book was set in the Victorian era, and the main protagonist was a woman who acted as an amateur sleuth, this was perfectly appropriate. At the time there was no “cozy mystery” sub-category in the Kindle store, and I didn’t use this term as a key word because I tended to think of cozy mysteries as contemporary mysteries with some sort of theme: like baking, quilting, or cats. To a degree, I wasn’t wrong, since when Amazon created the cozy mystery sub-category a few months ago its three sub-divisions were: animals, crafts and hobbies, and culinary. Nevertheless, as I began to understand my audience and discover what people liked Read more…
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