Wednesday state of the Sookie

Writing: 1843, Fruits of Thine; 1250 Pegging, plus retitle
Total for day: 3093
Total for the month/year: 111552

Deadline work:
Pegging: 11427/10000, Done!
Dark Shifters: 2263/10000 Fail!
Horse shifters: 10076/10,000 Done!
BBW: 20863/20,000, 3000 left. Done!
Total: 44629/50000


Workout: none

Flying: none

Reading: none

Crafting: crocheted on hookbook

Media: Sons of Anarchy, season 2. Needed a Chibs and Fiona fix

Business: none

Blogtour

Today I'm at Bending the Bookshelf, talking about fanfic conversion.

http://bibrary.blogspot.com/2013/02/allusion-homage-and-filing-off-numbers.html

I'm also at Babes in boyland, talking about facing the Blank page

http://mjandpiper.blogspot.com/2013/02/guest-post-giveaway-facing-blank-page.html?zx=8b9f18f6cb01d832

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Thinking about books

My sales have fallen precipitously since mid 2009. I'm trying to come up with the next thing to write to boost them. Because in what universe does a mostly vanilla heterosexual paranormal romance NOT sell?

A dear friend and constant reader suggests that I am "Out There." I protested that aside from the whole "turns into a horse every month" thing, my current guy is just my grandfather--only without malaria and PTSD and with gayness.

I maintain if an idea has made it to prime-time TV, it cannot be considered "out there." Then again, someone who can write incestuous necrophilic bukkake (and it's only necrophilia until she wakes up!) and make it poignant instead of just gross, has no grasp on what real people consider "normal."

He has suggested that I am like Clive Barker (Amazing things happening to weird people), rather than like Stephen King (Amazing things happening to ordinary people)

So now I'm thinking. What PoV characters in my books are weird?
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Apparently more ordinary truckers?
Or more steampunk romances, as long as they are the same romances we've always seen, given brass, bolts, gears and goggles?

Help me out, constant readers. What am I doing wrong? Am I just too weird, too far out?
(Oh please, I get weirder things than me with my breakfast cereal!) Are my guys so far out of the ordinary nobody can get a handle on them?

Do I fail at creating That Guy, the one who is a touchstone into the weird universe we find ourselves?

Note to the D-Man, all the best sellers are gay, except the first. It's not the sexuality of the characters. My work is aimed squarely at the crowd who thought Bagoas was the BEST part of Alexander, not a cause of the movie's failure.