When You Are A New Romantic Suspense Author
Beneath the Skin is my first romantic suspense. This is a genre that I have always enjoyed reading. A romantic suspense has two interlocking plot lines. There is the love story which wends it way through the novel, pulling the protagonists together and apart until they meet their Happy Ever After or Happy for Now ending.
Then there is the suspense plot which is a combination of thriller and mystery with always murder or the threat of murder hanging over the protagonists or someone they love.
The challenge for the new author of romantic suspense is to twist these two plot lines together so tightly that if one were removed the other would fall flat. Think of movie Romancing the Stone without the love story, and you get the idea.
In the coming weeks, I will be reviewing a number of my favorite contemporary romantic suspense novels and comparing them to my own. I will even be giving copies away to readers who make comments on my posts. Some of the authors I will be reviewing are: Marie Force, Nora Roberts, Laura Kaye, Karen Rose, Lauren Layne and many more. Do you have some favorites?
Well, sure sounds exciting. I am kind of new to romance, the new versions as I am still stuck on those ones of the past mixed with fantasy. So looking forward to your readings and comments…who knows I may be a convert!!!!
There are all kinds of romances – fantasies with elves and dragons, paranormals with vampires and shape shifters, historicals set in other times and places, and then there’s romantic suspense which is what I write. I hope you will come to love it for its nitty gritty underworld flavor and for the love story that runs through it.