Please welcome Renee Reeves, the author of Night Angel back to the blog. Today she’s posed an interesting question for us to talk about. I hope everyone will weigh in on this topic. Renee will be giving away a prize to one lucky person who comments on THIS blog post. Be sure to leave a comment to enter.
Today I wanted to discuss what you guy’s think of Erotic Romance writer’s moving into the territory of children’s stories. I am asking because , along with writing “Romantica” type books, my love of Fairytales, Dragons, Unicorns, and all things magical and mystical (and the everlasting child inside of me) would LOVE to write stories for children.
Now on the news we have all seen some of the stories regarding teachers, or other professionals, whose romance writer alter-ego’s have been discovered by the public and how angry many of the public/parents became when they found out that their child’s teacher also wrote “dirty stories.”
I would like to know your feelings on that. If it would bother any of you for a romance/erotic writer to also write stories for a younger group under a different pen name, of course. In my opinion, what a person does with their free time is of no business to me, nor should it matter to anyone else.
I am also hosting another contest and one lucky poster to this blog will win a collection of writing notepads, journals, etc…
I will pick from your comments and a winner will be announced November 10th.
Please have a safe and happy Halloween!!!
Sincerely,
Renee Reeves
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Renee Reeves
I don’t see why not. If the writer follows an interest or idea & they have the ability – go for it. Good writing is good writing.
You said it, Mary!
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I think that if you can write, you should be able to write any genre. Some authors have an ability to do this while others can only write one genre. I have no problem reading an author who writes for multiple genres. I care about the story and if the book keeps me interested. Good luck Renee and I look forward to reading your books, whatever genre you choose to write in.
Thank you Christine~ I hope to write stories that you and everyone else will love! ;o)
It is good to know that an author can write in many genres. It shows that they have talent. If an author can seperate their writings more power to you. Many big time authors write in different genres but under diffeerent names.
Agreed Gabrielle, but I’m talking specifically about the erotic author going to childrens stories, mainly because of parental reactions which would most likely be negative (if I base my answer on new’s stories I have heard dealing with similar situations.)
But, as has been said, that’s where the use of a pen name comes in!
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Thank you for your comment.
I see nothing wrong in an author using differrent pen names for different genres. In fact I like the fact that some authors are able to write in more than one gerne – just look at Isaac Asimov – the only writer to have a book in all ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System.
Hah! Thanks for that bit of knowledge, Ilona! Now, I can DREAM about rivaling Asimov ;o)
Wow Laurie, I had no idea a publisher could “own” a writer’s pen name as well. Good to know! I, too, think that as long as there is a “line” drawn with the use of different pen names that branching into children’s story territory would be no issue.
Oh, don’t worry~ romance writing (and reading)~ will always be my first love and first priority for myself, but I would like to broaden myself as a writer by testing the water’s in other genre’s. It may, or may not, pan out in the long run.
AND (just to get you excited, lol!) I AM working on Night Angel’s sequel AND also the “teaser” story that I used for my blog. So, keep your fingers crossed for that one! ;o)
My fingers are definitely crossed! I’m delighted to hear you are working on the sequel to Night Angel and also on the “teaser” story you posted last time you visited the blog. That was such a great start, it’s sure to be a great story.
I agree with Wilma. I think an author can enjoy writing in a variety of genres.
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I don’t see anything wrong with writing erotic romance under one pen name and writing children’s material under another pen name. I write erotic romance under Alyssa Aaron and write children’s material under my real name. The children’s material is more of a labor of love…stuff I’ve written for the kids in my life than because I expect to make a profit from it…but it’s out there anyway.
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I guess the only concern I’d have about about the same writer writing in both genres would be the children crossing over into the adult material to follow the favorite author, but this is definitely reduced if the author uses an entirely separate pen name…and if the author writes for vastly different age groups. A teenager might follow an author to adult material. A pre-school child wouldn’t. But this danger seems to me to be mitigated with the use of separate pen names. That’s really the purpose of pen names…to have a separate identity for different types of writing. There are lots of reasons for wanting a separate writing identity…or several of them. Some of them relate to the legalities of publishing. Some publishers contract legal ownership of the name of an author. So an author might want to use a specific pen name for work for that publisher and another for a different publisher.
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Readers also look for certain kinds of work from certain authors…so an author might want to use different pen names for different types of work. Nora Roberts for romance for example, and JD Robb for suspense.
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I see nothing wrong with writing in all of the genres you love — though I would like to see you write more in the romance genre *wink* I’d love to read more about the hero and heroine in the teaser you posted last time you were here, and I’d REALLY like to about the hero’s brother from Night Angel.
I think an author can write any genre they want, and be good at each one.
Love your answer and completely agree, Wilma!