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Rachel Morton's avatar

Oh this is awesome. I have upgraded. I can't wait to see this and watch you (in a non stalkerish way).

I love the age thing. I'm 48, so I appreciate this. It's nice to see our age group kicking ass. Yay for Gen X. :)

Loving those word counts too. As a number 1 achiever, my brain loves these numbers.

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Evolet Yvaine's avatar

This is so cool! I'm co-writing a romantasy novel that's coming out next year--under another pen name as well--and the character is a 45yr old POC. Are you indie publishing? If not, consider checking out the indie publisher for our book, Empress Editions https://empresseditions.io/. They're looking for romantic fiction with midlife FMCs.

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Ines Johnson's avatar

How exciting! I'm indie publishing and chronicling my efforts here on Substack.

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Evolet Yvaine's avatar

It's my first time co-writing--and writing romantasy--so I'm chronicling the experience on my Substack, too!

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Stephany Simmons's avatar

I'm writing 35-50 something ladies in paranormal and monster romance with really good feedback from GenX and older Millennials. I feel like lots of us are tired of reading about 20 somethings with no clue or experience.

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Ines Johnson's avatar

Preach!

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Author Lynn Yorke's avatar

Most of my heroines are 35+ (the 42-year-old was still a little messy because reasons.) I'm very interested in following along to see how you handle the marketing! My current pen is meh.

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Ines Johnson's avatar

Woohoo! Hopefully you'll get some nuggets from my experience to turn that meh to amazing!

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HC Fitzpatrick's avatar

I’m so excited for this. While I don’t mind some of the tropes from New Adult/Spicy YA, I do like a heroine who actually has some perspective on life. So excited to see what you do!

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Ines Johnson's avatar

Right! Smart heroines only!

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Janine's avatar

This is great, I've upgraded. Looking forward to learning lots 😀

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Ines Johnson's avatar

Thank you!

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picturetalk321's avatar

I love the idea of romantasy for mature readers. This had never occurred to me before! It is brilliant and I can't wait to read it.

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picturetalk321's avatar

PS I'm 62. :)

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