Saturday, January 12, 2013

My Billionaire Books

Sequels

I’m not a huge fan of books in a series, unless each book is a complete episode, with a continuing minor backstory, so that I can stop reading at any point without the need to know what happens in the next book.  That’s why I watch shows like Law & Order, CSI & NCIS, but don’t watch soap operas.  But I’ve noticed that readers always demand to know more about the characters they’ve enjoyed reading about, ones who have somehow touched them.

Readers have long demanded to know more about the characters in Curves for the Billionaire.  I’ve just published The Billionaire’s Payment and have already had a few request for more, although both stories have HEA endings.  Readers are curious about the workings of the characters’ minds and have also inquired about minor characters.  I spend a lot of time thinking up my characters, but ultimately what appears on the page is less than a third of what is in my head.  I create these characters and have to know all their weaknesses and strengths to show the most significant of them to the reader.  Scenes which occur between them – a candlelit dinner, a dance in the moonlight, may not find their way onto the page if they are not significant or necessary to advance the story.  And yet some readers crave that kind of information.

So, since I have already published both books and many readers have found them satisfying reads, I have decided to address issues I deliberately glossed over for those readers who are curious to know more.  If you have read, or will read either of these billionaire books and enjoyed them as they are, there’s absolutely no need to buy the new books I’m planning.  At the end of both books, the characters declared their love for each other and the readers know that they are on the road to happy ever after.  For me, that’s enough when I’m reading a book and will probably be for most of you.  If it’s not, you’ll be pleased to know that I’m planning to write the following books in the coming months:

Curves for the Billionaire 2:  will pick up where Curves for the Billionaire left off.  Readers find out if Samantha is pregnant and how that will affect their marriage of convenience.  Samantha will have to cope with the reality of being a fuller-figured wife of a wealthy, prominent man who women will try to steal right in front of her eyes, dismissing her as little or no competition.  Zachary’s relationship with his mother will be further explored.  

Curves for the Billionaire 3: Samantha’s friend Fiona was a blast to write.  Readers loved her feistiness and her loyalty.  High Speed Curves is her story and one reason for it being a separate story is the fact that it’s going to be erotica, not erotic romance!  I couldn’t write a straight romance about Fiona.

The Billionaire’s Payment 2: will give readers a chance to experience the remaining six days and nights that Shakira spend with Jared in his hotel suite.

The Billionaire’s Payment 3: will pick up from where we leave them in the first book, but after the simple ceremony in India.  While Jared sets about making good his promise of throwing his wife the most lavish wedding London has seen, Shakira will finally face up to her tormentor, her mother Nadira.  Boosted by Jared’s love, Shakira is stronger, more confident, but is she ready to take on the slim, beautiful, poised woman who is everything Shakira thinks she’s not?  And knowing how desperate for money her spendthrift parents now are as they’re forced to live on a monthly pension which they find inadequate but most British households would live on in luxury, can she trusts their efforts at reconciliation?  This will be a separate book to allow readers to read this after The Billionaire’s Payment, but skip The Billionaire’s Payment 2 as it covers events that happened in the same time frame as The Billionaire’s Payment.