Georgette Kaplan's Blog

Seems like every post of advice for aspiring authors is that they should have a newsletter, so does that sound like a good idea? I don't know how many followers I have, much less how many of them are bots, and this isn't exactly a blogging platform. Tumblr's dead, Twitter's... X. So if anyone's going to hear what I think about movies, it might as well be in e-mail.

Me, I don't go in for newsletters personally, I have enough to read, but you tell me, people, would you want to hear about my writing process or is the odd book exposure enough for you?

(just to get a feel for the genre you understand)

And is it a hallmark of the genre that the male bodyguard must introduce himself by breaking into the woman's home to surprise her and show her that her security isn't up to snuff? Because that seems both unprofessional and illegal, yet it happened in both books.

Or is it just a romance novel thing in general that I'm not aware of?

Alpha male tailor: You must allow me to customize your dresses.

Plucky female fashionista: Off-the-rack is fine! Good day! What... what are you doing?

Alpha male tailor: I'm taking the dress you're wearing in! It's a half-inch too big at the hips!

Plucky female fashionista: *gasp!*

Read a book so bad that I feel professional courtesy requires I not give it the one-star review it deserves. Well, I said read, but I listened to the audiobook.

Let me tell you, it had bigger problems than being a spicy romance novel with half the love scenes read by a male narrator doing a falsetto... but not that much bigger.

Okay, I take it some people are interested in more than my objectively correct opinions on the works of Peter McCurtin and wanna know what I'm writing myself.

Well, I've finished a new book, it sold to Ylva, I'm waiting for the editor to go through it and get back to me with the edits that will kickstart the whole process. That e-mail could come tomorrow, it could come in October. In the meantime, I'm working on another project which I hope to have done by next year and basically I'll hit Ylva with a one-two punch of things they can pay me for.

But this current book, I actually managed to get it in just before the deadline and in the last slot Ylva had open, so it'll be out next year, almost certainly.

I've got some projects that are very complicated, very research-intensive, I try real hard to get them right... this one was easier, in a way, a lot of it was me just kinda relaxing and exploring this scenario and letting what I thought would happen flow out onto the keyboard.

I had already done a lot of editing on it by the time I showed it to Ylva, there's subplots that came and went, characters that had to go and others that showed up...

At the end of the day, I'm eager to see how it's received. Because on the one hand, I think it's a normal romance compared to some places I've gone with my work, and on the other hand, it's probably pretty weird, still. I don't know if I'm in the best place to gauge these things. I did a trilogy of adventure novels which seems pretty left-field to me, but it got a movie deal, so by that metric it must be really mainstream. So who knows?

Maybe it'll be seen as meat and potatoes or maybe I'll get one of those video reviews that just lists all the weird things that happen in the story. I went to public school, man, I don't know how the... lesbian romance novel community... at large... feels about these things.

You think I would've called Taylor Swift having a lesbian fanbase? Nope!