What I did on my day off

[rolanni]

As threatened, I worked with my spiffy new layout program, which was remarkably soothing.  I’ve also made a start on a Carousel Tides website.  It’s not by any means done yet; I want to add a cast of characters, and some sample chapters and a post about why I wrote this book — to, yanno, defuse those folks who will ask Why On Earth I wasted my time writing urban fantasy.

If you have a couple moments, do you mind going over and taking a look at the place?  Let me know what you think, and what you might find useful in such a site.

Thanks — and I hope everyone had as relaxing a day as I did.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Under the main tag "About Carousel Tides", I should immediately be hit with a killer tag line, an enticing blurb, then a bit more information about Why I Should Buy This Book Right Now -- charactes, setting, links to snippets...

Um. You did see the part where I said these things were coming and that the site isn't complete yet? As my copy editor will attest, poor woman, I'm reallyREALLY bad at putting down all of the important information in the first four words.

"Urban Fantasy" in the current marketplace translates immediately to "Kickass Heroine, Paranormal Monsters, Hot Sex." This certainly isn't all there is to the genre -- I get the feeling that CAROUSEL TIDES is, mmm, more like Charles de Lint at the seashore? -- but if it *is*, there's nothing on that website to get that across. And if it *isn't*, there's nothing to tell me why I should pick it up and read it.

Untangle this for me? I'm not getting if it has to have kickass monster sex or you won't buy it, or if it has kickass monster sex you won't buy it.