Geri Foster is the PP gals guest today. She's a fabulous romantic suspense writer and here's a chance to get to know her better. Welcome, Geri!!
Conference Fun!!
This year I went to the Romantic Times Conference and RomCon
for the sole purpose of meeting and engaging with readers of Romance. I had a
wonderful time and met many delightful people while at these two conferences. I
also had the privilege to meet several of my favorite writers and became a fan
to some I’d never read before.
The whole experience was career changing. I returned home
determined to write more stories, have deeper plots and develop compelling
characters if it killed me. I wanted to be better for those wonderful readers
I’d met, and I wanted to be equal to the outstanding writers I’d came in
contact with.
That’s true inspiration. As writers we’re often alone in a dark room in the middle of the night pounding on our computers. We rarely see the end result of our hard work except when we receive payment for books bought. That’s a very cold way of doing business. Yet we don’t own shops where customers come in and browse and we get to know them in the process. With no face to face contact we have no idea what a reader really wants from a writer. We only have a paycheck and reviews to gauge our success. With only a few tools to work with, we write hoping our readers will like what we’ve spent months writing. If they do, and they let us know, we’re thrilled. If they aren’t happy with our story, we languish for days on how to get better at our craft.
I think the way to write the stories readers will love is to
love what you write.
