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Romancing Short Fiction

by M. L. Buchman I've got a new love! Okay, it's not that new. I've been writing short romance fiction for just over two years now and it is SO MUCH FUN! I get to play with characters who merely passed through an earlier novel. For example, Dusty James was just a name in book #2 of the Night Stalkers series,  I Own the Dawn. In book #3, Wait Until Dark, he actually had a tiny speaking role. And then he insisted that he had a love story of his own to tell, which came to life in The Ghost of Willow's Past : That's the story that got me started. But it was a love-hate relationship at first. I didn't know if I liked short Romance Fiction. I'd grown up reading short Science Fiction voraciously, but I'm one of those writers who doesn't think in novels, I think in whole series!  Getting down to a four-book series is a hard concept for me. But then I started playing with short fiction and the whole love-hate thing shifted some more toward the "l...