OK, so technically I am not starting from fresh as an author, I actually have written about 15 novels, published four with more on the way. However, my new adventure is going to be writing short novels simply to make money. Myself, along with a group of fellow writers, have decided it would be amusing to write for Harlequin, something none of us have done before. The idea being to write to make money on short novels or novellas. The super novels and series we are all writing are fun but extremely time consuming and the market is not doing as well as it once had. Harlequin, however, because of the frugal prices of their novels, are still doing just fine. Each of us are picking unique names just for this adventure and we are interested to see how it will work.
At the moment, since we are foregoing agents, we can only write as 'new' authors and the categories we can submit to are very limited, however, we are going into this to make money and nothing else. There is no pride issue on getting credited work, since the Harlequin books do not stay on shelves long, as rotations are done to publish as many books as possible. Each book accepted still gets an author a nice pre-sale royalty check and royalties after that, with the understanding that you do give up rights to your book as an author, in other words, you make money but the book belongs to Harlequin. Some books will only submit as ebooks, not many. Others are published in soft cover format and after a period of time will end up on Kindle and possibly other ebook formats as well.
I think it sounds like a fun adventure and am willing to invite anyone interested along the ride, to join the online version of this group that is forming. Here we can share all of our ups and downs and give each other advice and support.... and hopefully make good money!!!!
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