Greetings everyone!

It has been such a long time since I last posted on my blog. Many things in my writing world have changed.

Initially, when my writing career started, almost four years ago, I knew I wanted to write romance. Little did I know at the time, that there were so many subgenres of romance, e.g. contemporary, suspense, sweet, and ah, my favorite, erotic. I even delved in young adult fiction. Although I enjoyed young adult fiction, it was not for me. Neither was sweet romance, too sweet.

When I began my writing journey, I wrote what I call a different type of romance. This romance contained subplots, mystery, and eroticism. Hence, when I sent my first novel to a traditional publisher, the rejection letter read: While we are encouraged by this novel, it has too many things going on, and you should read over our guidelines. Lol, I read the guidelines, and I thought I followed them. I didn’t think that the hero getting overwhelmed with passion and forgetting the condom would be a deal breaker. I thought this was reality. It was my reality. I’ve heard many couples speak of this. And my subplots and the amount of descriptive sex was too much for a contemporary romance, understood. I took their advice and moved on to self-publishing. I could write the types of stories I wanted to read about.

While writing, I still felt stifled, and was weary of getting too descriptive with my sex scenes and subplots. They’re not for everyone. In the recent years, erotic romance has become more popular than ever. Harlequin Romance has even has a superromance line starting at 100,000 words. Other publishers are doing the same. From here on out, erotic romance with complicated subplots is what Libra (no longer Libra Rajani), will write exclusively.

I look forward to writing my next post and I look forward to your comments!

Smooches,

Libra