Paranormal Romance, Anyone?

[dr_pretentious]

Anna Genoese of Tor (aka alg) announces here that she's looking to fill a couple of gaps in her lists for 2007 and 2008. If you write paranormal romance or Jewish-themed fantasy, you should rush straight to that post and see if you have what she's looking for.

So now I have a minor dilemma. I don't think I'll have it for long. Because writersweekend informed me that, in "Atlantis Cranks Need Not Apply," I had accidentally written a short paranormal romance, and because so many of my beta readers told me the story could be expanded into a novel, I am a little bit tempted to try to fill the contemporary paranormal romance gap with either an expansion of the novella or some other Rugosa story. Probably I'd do the latter, if I made the attempt at all. It just seems to me, though, that writing 25,000 words of paranormal romance by accident, when I was aiming for a comedy of epistemology, does not bode well for my being able to pull off a paranormal romance on purpose, given that I'm still romance-illiterate. Hitting the mark for 70,000 words really would call for a deeper acquaintance with that genre than I have.

At least producing 70K by July doesn't seem daunting anymore. Even if I get nothing else out of reading Anna's call for submissions, I got the satisfaction of looking at that number and saying, "Yeah, I could do that."

Well, I'll invite the universe to send me a story to fill the bill, and if one shows up, I'll write it. Meanwhile, there's plenty to keep me busy.

Comments

[writersweekend.livejournal.com]

I think you should try to write the story she really wants, with the whole Hebrew mystical thing.

Come on. You know you want to.

::ducks::

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

For the person who has the background to pull it off, that book is going to be a total blast to write.