I made a new cover for my book "30 Below" and oh how I love it. It says everything I want it to say!!!! A big shout out to Pastor Matthew Noyce in Antigua for allowing me to use his ring picture! THANK YOU!!!!But on with the story.... yesterday I was prepping for the release of my new book by getting it signed up for Pre-Order status on Kindle. I was super excited to do this... until... I had to pick my genre categories. Ugh. Let me share with you how it went down in my little ole head...
Before I begin - here is a reminder of what the content warning says:
CONTENT WARNING:
While this book is Christian in theme, it contains strong sexual content and language.
Fiction. Yes, it is definitely fiction... click
Christian. Yes, it is about God's plan & He did ask me to write it... click
General. The best choice for what's left. Too bad they don't have an EDGY category... click
Hmmmm... do I really want to put this book in Christian fiction? I don't know? Do I? I mean it has that content warning so my hate mail will be reduced... but maybe because of the content warning no Christian fiction readers will buy it. Then I will feel like a loser because no one is going to buy my book.
(delete genre categories... start over)
Fiction. Yes it is still definitely fiction... click
Romance. Yes, it is about love and sex... click
Erotica. Hmmm, is it erotica? It has a lot of sex but is it erotica??? DELETE
General. That is safe... click
Hmmmm... Do I really want to remove the Christian aspect of it in my genre? I mean I am writing this for the Lord. If I remove that am I some how not showing my pride in doing this for Him? Am I backing off what I believe? It does have that content warning... so I am telling people it is about God and the write up clearly states this is about God. I'm good with that. I'm not backing down. But wait... the average romance reader is probably not going to want a lesson about God mixed in with their sex. They won't buy my book, they will think they are going to be condemned. Maybe I should remove the part of the content warning that says it's about God... but it is about God. I can't remove it! I'm not condemning anybody at all... it's just a story about love, sex and God's design. A hot story, yes. Hmmmm....
(delete genre categories... start over)
Fiction. Yes, this is one thing I know for sure... click
Christian. Yes, God wants Christians to read this...
but I might get hate mail. I can't handle hate mail,
but maybe He wants other people to read it too DELETE
Romance. Yes, God wants typical readers to read this...
but they might get mad, not wanting to hear about God's plan
but it's in the write up so they can choose if they want to buy it or not
Crap. Nobody is going to buy this book. Not the Christians, not the average romance reader. Nobody. Why did I even write it? Forget it. Maybe this was a bad idea... meshing a Christian message with a sexy, love book. Who do I think I am???
Hmmmm... remember that weekend when my husband and I went away and wanted to read a good steamy book together? We did a search for 'hot, romantic book with married couple'. Remember how many books were returned in that search? ZERO!!!! And I don't think it's because married Christians aren't reading sexy books... it's just that no one has written a sexy Christian book about marriage. I mean the world thinks marriage is the end of sex. And a lot of Christians think sex shouldn't be discussed... at all! Once you're married, it's over. But that is simply not true. Marriage is supposed to be the beginning. And I'm here to say... married sex can be GREAT sex. I'm sure there are other married Christians out there who would like to read a good, hot, steamy book about a married couple who deals with stuff married people deal with. I am sick to death of all the disrespectful sex... I want to give people some respectful sex to read about!
That's why I wrote it. Yes, that's why He had me write it.
Deep Breath.
So what the heck is my genre? They don't have the one I need... Fiction>Christian>Married Erotica
That's just funny. Ha Ha.
Okay, so that is where my mind was... and here is what I ended up doing. I chose two. I decided if I don't sell any books, that is okay. God knows what to do with it, I just have to be obedient and I'm gonna be honest, writing this series has been a ton of fun. And my husband has enjoyed it too ;)
Fiction>Christian>Romance
and
Fiction>Romance>General
The content warning remains and... that's all she wrote. Who knew this would be so difficult? I can only choose one genre for the paperback, so I have no clue which I will choose yet. I have some time! Sept 15th is the release date. I'd love to hear your comments and thoughts on which YOU would choose.
Today, the Kindle version of "30 Below" went up for Pre-Sale. Here is the link if you are interested in supporting what I am TRYING to do :) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MQIK26Q
Can't wait to see what God is going to do!!!
If you're interested in reading the preview... here ya go!30 Below Preivew
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