A Book for Every Taste

A reader and I were talking about my different kinds of books. She was right when she said I seem to enjoy telling different types of stories.

I write emotional dramas, lighter, sweet romances, rom com...

I write short stories, novellas, short contemps all the way to long contemps...

And then there's my mystery series.

I've even written romances with fairies in them even.

Now, it may seem that I'm all over the board, but I for me, there's a logic to approaching stories from different writing points-of-view.  

For on thing, some stories lend themselves more to a particular way of telling them... A woman who's suffered a horrible loss and is trying to rebuild her life?  Just One Thing, a drama.  A woman who put wax all over her legs, before she realized how much it hurt to yank it off?  I Waxed My Legs for This? a comedy.  A maid who accidentally cleans a murder scene?  Maid in LA Mysteries, mystery.  Short stories?  Nothing But...trilogy.  Novellas? 13 Weeks.  Long contemp?  Her Second-Chance Family.  Short contemp?  A Day Late and a Bride Short.

Some stories take me 85,000 words to tell...a long contemporary romance.  Some take me less than 5,000...a short story.  Most things fall somewhere in the middle.

As a reader, I read all different kinds of books (biographies, science geekfests, science fiction and yes, romances).  I guess it makes sense that as a writer, I like to tells stories in different ways.  But I think there's a commonality to all my books...they're all stories that center around family and true love.

Or, let's put it this way...sometimes I'm hungry for fast food fries and sometimes I want dinner at a place where the guys have to wear a suit coat and tie.  Yep, I am a woman who spends her summers splitting wood for the fireplace, but owns multiple cocktail dresses.  LOL  There's no rhyme or reason to it all.

How about you?  Do you gravitate to one type of book, or do you read across the board?
Holly...who's been known to read cereal boxes!

Oh, and here's my newest Ask-the-Author video:

Spring Forward

 Happy spring!!

Even though spring's a week away, in most of the US, we're springing forward today.  I feel like I've gone back in time when I lose that hour.

Speaking of going back in time....

I'm going back to some of my earliest writing this week.  A Day Late and a Bride Short, my first Silhouette Romance, is finally available as an eBook!!  Thirteen years ago, when I sent this proposal to my editor, she sent me back a note from the Senior Editor saying that with that title, she'd expected a marriage of convenience story.  My original idea wasn't that at all, but as a very newish author, I said, "That's exactly what it will be."

My editor bought the proposal.  It wasn't quite the story I intended to tell and to be honest, I wasn't sure how to write a contemporary marriage of convenience.  As someone who's been married for many years—someone who is still wildly in love with her husband—I have to confess, marriage isn't always convenient!  But I fell in love with the story and the characters!

I had so much fun going back in time with this story!  My house was loud and crazy back then...wait, it's still loud and crazy.  Maybe that just goes to show that as much as times change, they stay the same!

Oh and you can have a chance to win  a copy of A Day Late and a Bride Short (Kindle Edition) in an Amazon Giveaway!. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.See Official Rules.  

Reviews:

More than Magic Award Winning Book

"... a beautiful, and sweet, love story."  ~Romantic Times Bookclub 4 1/2 Stars Top Pick
"Ms. Jacobs has done it again!" ~Kelley Hartsell, Love Romances
"My favorite Holly Jacobs book yet!" ~Cheryl St.John, Author of MARRY ME...AGAIN


Speaking of fun...I've been playing with videos again.  There's a new Cooks and Books...definitely on the book side of things this time!  And the first of my "Ask the Author" videos.

My kids would tell you that I amuse myself a little too easily!  LOL

I hope you're reading for spring! I'm heading to Barbara Vey's Readers' Luncheon in May!!  Maybe I'll see some of you there??  I'm so itching to get out to the garden again!  I'm sure there will be more Cooks and Books videos when all the fresh produce starts coming in! Do you have any fun spring plans??

Holly

I Waxed My Legs for This? 6/16

A Simple Heart, 5/16