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Monday, April 17, 2006
What's a Presents Author doing here?
I'm sure there are people asking that. Who's she and why is that Presents book up on the Desire site? If it's not there yet, it will be soon. Shelley the webmistress promised she'd stick up a cover of my April Presents, The Antonides Marriage Deal. Elias Antonides isn't a cowboy (no, duh, as my sons used to say) like most of my Desire heroes were, but he's still a McAllister hero, and I love him.
Anyway, for those of you who don't know me -- because, yes, I really did write for Desire, and I still love to read Desires, and I hope someday my life clears up enough and gives me enough space that I can again write for Desire -- I'm Anne McAllister. I started writing for Desire in the mid-90s with a book called Cowboys Don't Cry and followed it up with quite a few more in a mini-series of my own called The Code of the West.
I still have some Code of the West loose ends out there that I would love to get back to -- and I still get letters from readers saying, "Whatever happened to Flynn and Sara? Did I miss them?" And I always say, "No, you didn't. Sara's in med school. She has a little boy called Liam. And Flynn . . . well, frankly, I don't know where Flynn is. Like Sara, I haven't heard from him in years."
But I want to. And then I want to write their story. And Logan and Addie. And Becky. And Tuck. But will they be Desires? I don't know.
What makes a Desire? What makes a Presents? Are these marketing or editorial decisions? Does anyone besides authors care? You tell me. I'd be really interested in your comments, so please make them here or visit my own blog and we can discuss it there if it goes beyond the week.
I'm so happy to be here. I miss writing Desires. This will be like a family reunion week for me. And maybe someday I will actually 'move back' to the Desire 'hometown.'
I'll be checking in once a day at least. So if you have questions, comments, concerns, suggestions, please share them.
posted by Anne McAllister at 8:49 AM
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4 Comments:
Estella said...
Why can you write other books and not Desire?
1:46 PM
Anne McAllister said...
Hi Estella,
Thanks for asking. It's a matter of time, I suppose. My normal book 'output' over the years has been generally between 2-3 a year. One year I did 4 and it basically killed me. Ever since I've been lucky to do one. And since the "one" that I had to do was for Presents -- NATHAN'S CHILD, which was the third book in a trilogy that was 2 years behind the first two -- I did that. And then a book spun off that, and then a book spun off that and then another. And so over the last three years I've written four books instead of six or seven.
I have had things other than writing that have come up that needed my attention, and I needed to deal with them. I miss the cowboys, though, believe me, even though I think there are probably other books I could do in the Desire line-up. Given the 'new' guidelines, I'm not sure my cowboys would fit there anymore, anyway. We'll see.
And thank you for asking!
Anne
2:07 PM
christa said...
Is it difficult to concentrate on several series at once?
6:54 AM
Anne McAllister said...
Good question, Christa. And yes, I think it would be. But generally I'm only working on one book at a time. So while I'm writing, I focus on that book. The next (for another series) might be brewing in the back of my mind, but I'm rarely actively doing anything with it. So it just stews away there until its turn comes.
The hard bit is deciding where a book's story will allow it to fit into a line's specifications. I found that difficult for a while, then it got easier. Now with the shifts in the lines, it can be tricky again.
7:50 AM
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