Jenn McKinlay: Shocking no one, I'm sure, I'm working on a couple of things at the moment. The first project is a dear reader letter for my May romcom SUMMER READING.
Why? Because when I decided to write a heroine who has dyslexia, I knew I wanted the book to be as accessible as possible. Straight up, it looks different. The font is a sans serif called Verdana, words that would be italicized are in bold instead, and there are no hyphens at the end of sentences, because the book designers agreed that if you're writing a book about a character with dyslexia, it should be as dyslexic friendly as possible. Still, for readers without dyslexia, I had to explain.
Of course, the readers who are determined to hate the book do not care and dole out their one stars because "how dare I change a book's format" -- yes, there are already a few of those popping up on Goodreads. *eye roll* This is the part of being an author where you have to, in the immortal words of Taylor Swift, "Shake it off." LOL.
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It's a romance mystery mash-up and so far it's been great fun to revisit. Kindle Vella, a serialized fiction platform, is fairly new and I'm hoping these episodes give me greater access to Kindle readers, especially since the first three episodes are FREE. Who doesn't love FREE? I've heard authors say there's a vast ocean of Kindle-only readers out there, so I'm hoping to bridge those waters a bit. We'll see.
And lastly, I'm working on the first draft of Fatal First Edition, the next Library Lover's mystery that for some inexplicable reason I thought would be cool to set on a train. *face palm*
Yeah, picture me tied to the tracks looking up at this...
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That's about how well it's going. *sigh* Who knew train travel could be so complicated? Cool! But complicated! And that's it from Chez Jenn.
As I write and rewrite my dear reader letter, I have to ask, does anyone read those? Should I put a brain teaser in the middle just to see? LOL.
