Thank you! ♥ I'm utterly delighted you liked it, and really glad it was helpful in recovering from your awful, awful night.
... and well, yeah, obviously it's not that there is NOTHING in these books that I enjoy writing! Actually, I enjoy quite a bit of it, and the Lauren books are a great deal more in line with what I generally like to write than the other ones. (Thus far I'm hugely relieved that readers seem to be willing to accept and enjoy it for what it is; I had been fearing that it would get a slew of one-star reviews because of the lack of sex/3rd-party viewpoint/etc., but the reception seems to be fairly positive so far ...)
Still, the whole thing has been an interesting exercise in figuring out what people who like Trope X might enjoy, and why they might like it, and then trying to write that. Sort of like writing in an exchange for someone whose tastes are very different from yours, and still trying to figure out how to give them something they'll enjoy. It's easier with the Lauren books because I'm genuinely writing stuff I enjoy, and having a lot of fun doing it -- but even for the house-name ones, I DO want them to be sincerely enjoyable, and not to write them ironically while laughing quietly behind my hand at people who like them, because that's no fun for anyone.
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... and well, yeah, obviously it's not that there is NOTHING in these books that I enjoy writing! Actually, I enjoy quite a bit of it, and the Lauren books are a great deal more in line with what I generally like to write than the other ones. (Thus far I'm hugely relieved that readers seem to be willing to accept and enjoy it for what it is; I had been fearing that it would get a slew of one-star reviews because of the lack of sex/3rd-party viewpoint/etc., but the reception seems to be fairly positive so far ...)
Still, the whole thing has been an interesting exercise in figuring out what people who like Trope X might enjoy, and why they might like it, and then trying to write that. Sort of like writing in an exchange for someone whose tastes are very different from yours, and still trying to figure out how to give them something they'll enjoy. It's easier with the Lauren books because I'm genuinely writing stuff I enjoy, and having a lot of fun doing it -- but even for the house-name ones, I DO want them to be sincerely enjoyable, and not to write them ironically while laughing quietly behind my hand at people who like them, because that's no fun for anyone.