It is a rare day when I find a "comp title" for anything I write. For the uninitiated:
Comparison (“comp”) titles are books that are similar to yours in one of two ways: Either the content is comparable or the sales trends are expected to be similar.
Well, now, in the indie author world--at least as far as I'm concerned--when we refer to comp titles, we can omit the "sales trends are expected to be similar" part of that definition. So for me, a comp title is simply a book that is similar to mine in its content.
I have yet to find any comp titles for The Witches' Rede series books. (One of these days I ought to do a trope list for them. If you read my extras in the blog post for the final chapter of Fifty Shades of Grace, you could probably guess that one of my favorite tropes is "there was only one bed," and it pops up at some point in virtually everything I write. You can have that trope when you pry it from my cold, dead, hell-bound hands.)
I have also yet to find comp titles for Rays of Sunshine and the forthcoming (I swear, it is!) Doctor Love.
But much to my surprise, I had a book land in my lap late last year (it was gifted me by someone in a FB romance group) that is a damn near perfect comp title for Fifty Shades of Grace and its sequel (probably more the sequel than the first story).
I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am to share this! I sincerely believed this day would never come and the last thing I ever expected was to be able to comp title a NY Times Bestseller to a silly fanfic I'm writing simply to "get it out of my system." (I have the worst feeling of foreboding that even after I finish the second story, I'll still have random scenes here and there I'll need to write with these two lunatics.)
So anyway, if you like the dynamic you've already seen between Grace and Alastor, get yourself this book and read. (Though please do check out the trigger warnings first -- Weaver gets a bit more graphic and descriptive than I ever do.) This book is gory and dark and funny and once the spice gets spicing, it spices quite spicily. 10/10.
If you can stomach what's listed in the trigger warnings (the ice cream thing wasn't even close to being that bad, imho), I recommend this book while you're waiting for my next story. I'd consider it like whetting your appetite for what's on the horizon at this blog.
You can enter to win a hardcover copy of Fifty Shades of Grace here <-- 6 days left!
Second fic update:
Finding comp titles is hell. But you know what else has been hell? Chapter 21.
Chapter 21 is hell. It's been a week and I've just barely scratched the surface but I'm vowing to get it squared away this weekend.
Current word count: 72,800
Have about 1,000 words of some festive fun from the second fic (not from Chapter 21 LOL).
Until next week, deer friends!
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