More and yet more paranormals are being published. I can't imagine that there are any more vampire lover plots to be had out there. But like many other bloggers, publishers, authors and booksellers, I can't seem to spot what may replace it. It usually is one or two breakthrough authors who finally catch everyone's attention. They are usually preceded by one interesting novel in the new "style" by an author who then goes on to do other things but the romance winds up on a LOT of folks "keeper shelves". Then another book with that same special something is snapped up by readers. Finally we get the breakthrough author who seems to seize everyone's attention and a new turn has been taken in romancelandia.
Frankly if I could guess what the next big thing would be (cozy, military, urban sophisticate, back to the earth rural, Edwardian romance, revival of the western romance????) I would urge my author friends to write one and hope to catch the wave. Publishers pretend they know what will be hot but they fail miserably. They follow along with the trends like everyone else until a hot new television series or an unexpected best seller jerks them out of their preconceived ideas about what we'll buy. Meanwhile they turn down some really interesting manuscripts. Why would anyone buy a non-fiction/reads like fiction book about the peculiar characters of Savanah....DA! Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil hits big. Psychic waitress meets out- of-the-casket vampire for romance in Louisiana but NOT New Orleans--never will make it....DA! Dead until Dark with Sookie Stackhouse comes out. Too bad my crystal ball in on the fritz are I would predict right here and now what the next big thing will be.
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