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I Get It, but I Won't Do It

  At the urging of a fellow author, I joined a site for writers a month or so back. It’s interesting, but I don’t feel it fits my style—not for writing, not for publishing, and not for promoting. The idea is writing books “to market” or “for market,” which means an author writes what will sell. Early on in my career I had an agent, and she tried to get me to write Amish romances, because they were big at that moment in time. I once heard an editor for a big publishing company say at a conference that anyone who had anything…anything with vampires in it should send it to her, because that was where the market was at that point. The market. The market. The market. you’ve read my work, you know I do pretty much the opposite. I write what interests me, what I feel passionate about. Sadly (or not, if I’m honest about it) that means that my books are all over the place. I have women’s fiction titles (serious stories about women in interesting situations) like Deceiving Elvera and S