This week LUV's spotlighting Harlequin Afterglow author @Adele Buck LUV: FAKE FLAME is your traditional publishing debut with Harlequin Afterglow. Can you tell us about this move to a traditional publisher after self publishing many books. Afterglow is a new line from Harlequin. Can you tell us about it? Adele: I had honestly thought I would be self-published in romance forever. I didn’t write glamorous billionaires or movie stars on one end of the spectrum or cute small-town on the other (though I read and love those books too!). Instead, I was somewhere in the middle and for years, there didn’t seem to be a trad pub market for that. But then John Jacobson, who’d seen some of my work and championed it when they were at Carina, contacted me about the new line, thinking I might be right for it. I pitched a story with an offbeat inciting incident: a woman at the end of her rope with her ex’s manipulative, dramatically coercive gestures threatens to set his piano on fire–so, the meet-cute is with one of the firemen called to the scene. Luckily, Afterglow liked the pitch and I was offered a 3-book deal. The whole experience has been great and I especially love working with John. Afterglow books are a bit longer than your traditional category line, a bit shorter than single-title, and they’re explicitly high-heat stories: right up my alley! In terms of differences, there’s a lot of things I don’t have control over anymore (like titles) but so far, I’m very happy with the choices that have been made and I adore not having to write back cover copy! (Not to mention that the BCC I’ve gotten from Harlequin is better than anything I could ever have come up with!)

Posted by LUV Team at 2024-02-05 20:00:04 UTC