May 30, 2008

This is a recent discussion between my critique partner and myself:

ME: Do you think LOAL is single title contemporary or romantic suspense? I've been doing well in contests where it's in ST, but in the RS, I always get comments like "more people need to die". Ok, like that but not exactly that.

CP: Well... I think it's light romantic suspense. And when people hear the label "romantic suspense" they probably tend to think more serious, dark romantic suspense. LOAL might not appeal to readers who are looking for that serious, dark romantic suspense, but, on the flip side, it might appeal to other readers who don't ever pick up books labeled romantic suspense because they don't like the whole serial killer/rapist/etc thing. So, in that sense, maybe single title is a better label. But I don't think it's wrong to call it romantic suspense.

ME: Yeah. Every workshop I listened to about RS from Nationals was about serial killers and child molesters and rapists. I guess people can die in single title, so I may have better luck there when I need to choose for a contest.