The Growth of An Author

I came across a facebook post recently about Julia Quinn's Dancing At Midnight being on sale. Ooh, I thought, I need to read that again because of course I already own it and have read it :) I have all of JQ's books FYI. So I am currently re-reading it and marveling at how much her style of writing has evolved. Its always fun seeing how much authors grow from their first book to their tenth. I especially love when I find an author later in their career because it means lots of reading for me! Julia has her very own style that is fun, witty, sweet, and full of everything one wants in a romance novel. Dancing At Midnight is only her second book and in each following book she gets better and better. I only hope as my career grows and with each book I release that I can have the same success and get better and better too.

While checking out JQ's website and her bookshelf I came across something super fun. When you click on her books and it takes you to the book page with excepts and such it will also show the original covers and the covers released in other countries. How neat! I had to giggle because the original covers are super corny in that classic bare chested hero embracing the heroine way that kinda gives romance novels a bad name. I much prefer her newer covers that are so much more elegant and sweet. They say don't judge a book by its cover but I have read that in the genre of romance if a cover is explicitly sexual than you know the main focus of the plot is sex driven but if the cover is more romantic, scenic etc, then the plot is focused on romance and relationships even though their still may be sexual scenes. I prefer the latter. I'm reading for the true love, the discovery of emotions and if and when they succumb to their attractions that is just the icing on the cake.

Take a look at how different these covers are and if you haven't read a JQ novel then you need to stop wasting your life and get to it. You will have a lot of catching up to do but I promise it will be so much fun.