{"id":2144,"date":"2015-09-18T10:39:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T17:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lentari.com\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2015-09-18T10:39:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T17:39:03","slug":"would-you-check-out-other-genres-from-the-same-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/?p=2144","title":{"rendered":"Would you check out other genres from the same author?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hypothetical question for you readers.\u00a0 I know of several authors that have done this and am wondering what percentage would actually give it a try.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s say you have a romance author who&#8217;s released a number of books.\u00a0 The author has built up a sizable fan base as a result.\u00a0 Now comes the announcement that the romance author is going to release another book, only this one isn&#8217;t romance, but science fiction, or any other genre that is nowhere close to what romance is.\u00a0 Now, here&#8217;s my question.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re already a fan of this particular author, would you be willing to try the new book written in a different genre than what you&#8217;re already used to?<\/p>\n<p>The reason I ask is that I have now fallen into this category.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a fantasy author and am working on a new book, namely the 6th Tales of Lentari novel.\u00a0 BUT, I&#8217;m also working on the first novel in an entirely new series in a new genre:\u00a0 mystery.\u00a0 What are the chances that you&#8217;d be willing to give the book a try?\u00a0 As always, comments are always appreciated.\u00a0 And don&#8217;t worry.\u00a0 You won&#8217;t ever hurt my feelings by telling me the truth.\u00a0 I value honest opinions more than anything.<\/p>\n<p>J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypothetical question for you readers.\u00a0 I know of several authors that have done this and am wondering what percentage would actually give it a try.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s say you have a romance author who&#8217;s released a number of books.\u00a0 The author has built up a sizable fan base as a result.\u00a0 Now comes the announcement that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,170,70,74],"tags":[198,69,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}