KD Rose: Author Tales: Guest Author Lisa Adams discusses Writing Short For Profit!

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Guest Author Lisa Adams discusses Writing Short For Profit!

Author Tales Welcomes Lisa Adams!

Writing Short For Profit…

So what's the secret?

Romance is the number one genre seller! (It always has been and probably always will be.)

Characters drive romance! But there's more…

Traditional romances require what we call a "Happily Ever After." Some books will take you through to the wedding day, others will guide you to a commitment, and still others set up a scenario of a meeting and show you a willingness to proceed. The last is the one that leaves the reader to imagine the most and so many readers love that. (Don't believe me? Check out the short romances in Woman's World magazine every week.)

But how do you make money writing short romance?

To give you a hint, there are hundreds of women's magazines out there looking for romance stories to add. They know romance sells, and they want a chunk of the pie. If you can tell a good romance in 800-1500 words then you hold the keys to the money box with magazines.

Online websites for women also purchase romance story shorts. Some pay flat rates of anywhere between $10 and $50. While other sites pay per word .05 up to $1.00 per word. (Just for reference… Woman's World magazine does pay $1.00 per word for stories of 800 words. That's $800 for one short story!)

If magazines are not your thing, there are quite a few ebook publishers out there who offer flat rates for short stories to be included in anthologies. (Cleis Press, Roane Publishing, and Torquere Press to name a few.)

Then there are also those presses that pay flat rates or royalties for your story and treat it as a stand-alone book. (Secret Cravings Publishing, Breathless Press, and Decadent Publishing are those that come to mind.)

The point is… writing short seems to be the in thing at the moment. With people's lives getting busier and busier, a lot of women are choosing to read novellas and short stories versus full length novels. Because seriously… who has the time? We want to escape, but time is precious. I love when a full story takes me less than an hour to read. I feel fulfilled and happy and don't feel like I'm neglecting any of my duties. (Because you know how we women are about feeling guilty.)

If you are a writer… I encourage you to try some of the publications that I've listed above. You may find it unbelievable how easy it is to break in to this genre with good writing AND make money from it.

If you are a reader, but feel you don't have the time to read… I encourage you to look at some of the novellas that have been put out by some of the ebook presses I mentioned above. Secret Cravings Weekend Getaways come out every Saturday. Evernight Publishing's Romance on the Go comes out every Friday, and Breathless Press Flirts come out every Friday as well. You'll be amazed at how many can be read in a lunch hour.

Thank you for listening today and I hope that I have helped a few people!

~Lisa A. Adams

Bio- Lisa A. Adams writes from a little plot of country, tucked away in the North Carolina Sandhills. When she’s not writing, Lisa can be found in her sewing room, in a classroom, or at a local soccer field. When asked about her family, Lisa will be the first to tell you that they have been the backbone of not only her writing career, but anything she chooses to pursue as well. She has been married to her husband for over ten years, has five wonderful children, and two very spoiled cats.

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KIRKUS Review of Inside Sorrow

In 11 bare-bones, free verse poems, Rose (Heavy Bags of Soul, 2012) refines a yearslong grieving process into a heartbreakingly potent distillate of sorrow.“I am at a loss,” declares Rose’s bereft narrator after her husband’s death. Ostensibly referring to her uncertainty about what to do with his belongings, the narrator is also confronting an existential fact; she has arrived at loss and seemingly has nowhere else to go. This technique—the evocation of loss on one level to imply an unspeakably more profound loss beneath—is one Rose frequently employs. She writes that “No one ever thinks of tragedy / the other way around / when nothing is left but shoes,” noticing that the “space between my fingers / is ever present. / At any moment, / small slivers,” and other fingers will never interlace with hers again. The sparseness of her verse—often a single beat or two per line—borders on gaunt and serves to codify the body’s and psyche’s inward collapses under the weight of grief, the instinctively protective drawing inward until “we are balled up in the fetal position.” She also structurally simulates the simultaneous, and paradoxical, scattering of self that accompanies a loss of this magnitude. Upon her husband’s death, she is at once “a wall” with “no door,” “the I’s that must witness” and the peripatetic who has “been bleeding out / all over the house. / I can walk / up and down the stairs / tens of times.” The difficulty of relationships—“So much compromise / when it comes to another”—urges her to acknowledge that “some part should feel like freedom / it should feel like freedom / it should,” yet what she finds is that his absence has become a violation of self: “Sorrow has left me naked / in a way I couldn’t have imagined, / leaving my life open to all. / Every nook and cranny.” The recovery of self, the poems reveal, is a long and always incomplete process. Though slightly marred by a handful of prosaic moments, the overall force of these poems is such that lines as simple as “I see a blue sky today. / It seems like a triumph” will, in context, shock readers with their cathartic power. Startlingly touching poetry; be prepared to step inside the sorrow.

Reviews of Inside Sorrow

"This book is a gift to anyone who is dealing with the grief of a loved one,
whether recent or past, and without a doubt will bring them comfort." Danielle Marie, Amazon.com

“Inside Sorrow” is a stellar little book of poems..." Erica Lovett, Goodreads

"K.D. Rose has captured the internal world of grief in a way that very few people
share - the parts that western civilization tells us to suck up and move on, as
if the death of a loved one has no bearing on who we are, that grief doesn't
change us, that life must go on at breakneck speed." K.J. Pierce, Amazon.com

5 Stars

“This book is for girls. This book is for women. This is a book to empower females from teenagers through adults.” I Am: Poetry In Motion by K.D. Rose is not what I expected; a pleasant surprise and a fresh twist on the self-help book genre. I absolutely love the pictures that accompany each poem and writings. They are not merely for you to look at. They definitely capture the vital messages that we should embrace rather than ignore. You will definitely want to look at them more consciously, and the meaning of each picture will resonate in your mind.

It touches on every subject that the female sex is familiar with: what is the perception of beauty in today’s world, limitations that society often impose on women, women’s status in politics and so much more. There is something for everyone, and everything is layered with deep yet clear words of inspiring encouragement. This book is good, not because of the above-mentioned issues we females have to face, but because it softly compels us to confront them. I gravitated to one of the poems, the melancholic and alluring Vinyl Lines – “We are vinyl lines / We have our own groove / We require diamonds / We scratch easily / We cascade melodies.”
K.D. Rose gives us a book with a compelling message that will change the way we see life. Forty-four pages of pure, poignantly beautiful, and thought-provoking empowerment. To all my fellow females, I Am: Poetry In Motion is invigorating and engaging. It is definitely for us." Reviewed by Lit Amri for Readers Favorite

Heavy Bags of Soul 4 Stars

"Heavy Bags of Soul" paints a rather dour picture of the modern world. In this engaging collection of poems and prosody is chronicled the trials and pitfalls of an oppressive world that is as absurd as it is tiring. Yet despite this dim outlook on life the book does offer a sense of hope and unity that serves to offset the nihilism of the main theme. Woven throughout the collection - most notable in the author’s modernizations of the classic Socratic dialogue - this theme of unity maintains that although the road of life is an exhaustive one and that all on that road are laden with their own heavy bags, everyone is in this together and only through tackling the challenges of this world together, only through tapping the resources of the equally heavy bags of soul, will everyone can make it through. Structurally, the aforementioned Socratic dialogues are just one of a variety of literary forms through which the collection’s themes are conveyed. The genre utilized here include both metered and free verse, terse maxims, essays on pop philosophy and cultural movement, and even the occasional bon mot as a punctuation point. This mix of literary formats not only manages to show each and every topical point in a number of different lights, but also challenges the readers who must themselves view each literary format in its own light. Also challenging is the author’s trust in her readers’ intelligence. Though not outwardly acknowledged, that trust is implicit in the author’s habit of using the most diverse and arcane cultural references possible. Citing sources that extend in relevance from Greek taxonomy through quantum physics and on to Top 40 Radio, the topical references may at times have readers wishing they had Wikipedia on speed dial, but do provide for an entertaining, esoteric and intellectually stimulating read."