Let's Talk The Test of Devotion

This book was my first (and for the moment my only) western. I’d never written a western before or even thought about doing anything in the genre. And I haven’t written one since. In fact, after a bad review because the original book was—admittedly—put out too fast at a hectic time in my life, I was certain I’d just drop it altogether. Although the plot was based in part on an old classic novel and had a lot of drive, I just didn’t feel like marketing the book or justifying why people should read it after an initial poor reception.

But it had a lot of downloads, by my standards, when it first came out. And after I gave it a new cover and a big edit, it just hung around for a while on my website. Some of you have probably read it during the months it was available free. One thing I noticed when redoing it was that I’d marketed it as western romance, but it turned into more of an actual western—which kind of bothered me. I’d assumed it would be western romance because I couldn’t possibly aspire to a real, gritty western. That would be laughable. Everything I’ve written has always been fluff.

But probably because of its original source in an old book written by a guy (who wrote action) it just did become a western, and that might explain—my junky editing aside—why it failed at first. It wasn’t for the right audience. Now I’m not sure who it’s for, but it lingers like smoke after a fire.
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