Change of direction

I'm stepping away from the paranormal romance for now. My decision to write a paranormal romance series came from the disenchantment I felt after the release of YOU KNOW HOW TO LOVE ME, which readers weren't interested in reading. That experience had me so discouraged I thought changing genres might be the answer. Last week, as I began writing Chapter Seven of ALL IN YOUR MIND, I ran out of gas. The characters weren't exciting me. The character role models I'd found looked the part but I had not desire to find out more about them. Bad sign. If the author isn't excited over her characters, those characters will bore the reader to death.
I really admire PRN authors like J.R. Ward who can come up with fascinating stories book after book. Their imaginations are so vivid that they create worlds, languages, and amazing powers. I don't believe I have what it takes to write an exciting paranormal romance. Let me take this opportunity to thank my sisterscribes who were generous enough to beta read the first six chapters. Perhaps someday I'll go back to it, but for now I'm saying goodbye to Bliss and Sebastian and his partners. In view of this, I'm going to do something new, which is actually an old manuscript I wrote several years ago. Originally, I'd titled it, BETWEEN SISTERS, but I'm going to give it a new title. The story is loosely based on my family. Back when I'd completed the manuscript, I didn't feel comfortable releasing it for obvious reasons. That discomfort is gone, maybe because my parents and my youngest brother have passed on and my sister doesn't read my books. It needs to be updated and revised, which might take as long as it originally did to write, but I believe readers will like the story. The background comes from real life, and my heart was really in it when I wrote the first draft. Also, my Stafford Brothers series was my best seller since HAVE YOU SEEN HER? Readers loved the family dynamics in those books. I hope they'll feel the same way about BETWEEN SISTERS.