Lisa, you’ve written in more than one genre. (And for more than one age group!) When it comes time to write another book, how do you decide which kind it’s going to be?
Years ago, a publisher-friend said to me, “Lisa, if you had just stuck with romances, like you began with twenty years ago, you’d be a house-hold name.” Sticking with one genre helps an author build a brand, and makes her readers know what’s coming next.
The problem with me is that I get bored easily and God constantly puts new challenges and ideas in my head. I have to follow where he leads me. Otherwise, the writing just doesn’t flow. I just finished book 2 in this Sugar Baron’s Daughters series and have the third to write, but I’m already thinking about the next series, and what’s capturing my imagination is another time-slip series (like River of Time) or epic universe-slip sort of trilogy…
New and challenging is what sparks my creativity. Not same ol’ same ‘ol. And yet now I’ve been at this long enough that I’m starting to do more in genres I’ve already written before, but it still feels fresh to me because I’ve taken a break! So maybe I’ll become a house-hold name when I’m eighty.
What do you hope readers will take away after reading Keturah?
Bad things happen. We suffer. We mourn. We struggle. But we get up and try again, because God gives us the strength to do so…and if we let him, he heals us and leads us to new blessings, making us a part of the best continuing love story ever.
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