Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks: What Writing to Market Actually Means
I love personality tests. Those things like Myers-Briggs that tell you all about how your brain works. I love them in large measure because they explain me to myself. You’d think after fifty-two years on planet Earth I’d have a handle on at least that one thing — me — but the fact is, it took me until I was middle-aged to begin the process of analyzing myself and how I function in the world.
One of the biggest things I’ve learned after ten years of self-analysis, is that my intuitive nature can be a blessing and a curse. It allows me to “get” a lot of things without having to study them. But because of that, I tend to miss important details that you can only understand if you’re consciously trying to learn them.
Writing books and publishing was one of those double-edged swords for me. When I got my first publishing contract in 2013, I knew absolutely nothing. But I intuited quite a bit. I sensed that in my genre — romance — indie publishing was going to be the future. I quickly absorbed the trends at the time — angsty New Adult romances…
