Over the past few months, I’ve been discussing releasing old projects that never found a home, plus the new situation of having the rights to a lot of my old books revert back to me when the publisher closed and having to decide what to do there. I thought I’d had a plan for at least what to do next, but as we all know, plans can change in an instant.
I was chatting with friends in an online group about a month ago, and some of them mentioned how fun it would be to have a book that was like those Choose Your Own Adventure books we all read as kids, but an adult romance. As luck would have it, I had exactly that sitting in my files. A number of years ago, I wrote the story for a particular website that dealt with CYOA romance, but then the site shut down, and I didn’t think I’d be able to successfully shop it around anywhere else, so it’s been sitting untouched…until now!
One friend did mention that she’d read an Austen-esque CYOA romance; when I did some poking around on Amazon, I found a couple more, but not a huge amount. I went back to my Word document to reread and decided I still liked the story and characters, so I abandoned my plan to re-release The Edge of the Sphere at the end of the summer and focused on cleaning this up instead. I think it’s a fun concept, and who knows, if other people feel the same way, maybe I’ll think about writing more of them.
This is just the sneak peak, so for now, I’ll just mention that I have the book up for pre-order on Amazon, AND I’m also trying something new and I have a few ARCs available on Booksprout. If you find joy in reading books before anyone else can and writing reviews, go take a look!