Part #2 of our chat with romance author/editor @bevrosenbaum LUV: You have written romance and currently focus on young adult. How has one influenced the other? Are the two genres complementary or do you have to put yourself into a very different mind space? Why the change? Bev: I'm not one of those authors who has ever had a career plan--though at times I've wished I was! I switched from romance to MG and YA for the simple reason that I fell in love with the books my kids were reading as preteens and teens. What's great about writing MG and YA, though, is that those are age ranges as opposed to genres in themselves. A YA novel can be horror or romance or sci-fi, etc. Many MG and YA authors dabble in a number of genres. I do, too. I think it's my voice that's the common denominator. Also, my preoccupation with childhood trauma. Earlier, I mentioned the book I currently have on submission. It's a historical YA/adult crossover heaped with family dysfunction and trauma that also has romantic elements and is also full of humour. I feel like all my life experiences and obsessions have come together in this book, that all parts of me are represented. While that one's on submission, I'm working on another historical YA/adult crossover with romantic elements. I feel it's taken me a while to integrate all these parts of me and all these book elements I love, but from this point on, I'm pretty sure I'll always be writing these types of books. (Here, I'll take the opportunity to remind reader-writers that some authors come out blazing with their first books but most of us take a while to become the authors we're meant to be!)

Posted by LUV Team at 2023-09-26 19:00:26 UTC