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There’s no doubt that romance is the most popular genre. The readers are voracious and will follow their favourite authors with a passion. Quite a number of those readers are currently enamoured with Chance Carter. A man writing Bad Boy Romances for women. While male romance authors aren’t unusual, they’re more likely to write under a female pen name. But not Chance, he’s flaunting his gender on social media and the fans love it. How much do they love it? Well, a recent release netted him 400 reviews in a week! So of course we invited him on to find out how he does it.

About our Guest

In his own words…

Hi, I’m Chance.

A Bad Boy who writes about Bad Boys. Who wouldn’t want to read that?
Here’s the deal. I write them. You fall in love with them. It’s as simple as that.
As a guy writing romance, I always welcome suggestions from readers about the things I’m screwing up.

  

Questions and topics discussed:

• We opened with a very important question: Boxers or briefs?
• Chance told us a little bit about himself and his past writing efforts
• Why did you choose to write about bad boys and babies?
• Do you write romance and erotica because you were looking for a market that sells or are they something you like to read/write them?
• Are you still writing in other genres?
• Do you communicate with your fans often?
• How many books do you publish in a year?
• What does your day-to-day writing schedule look like?
• Keriann_McKenna asked: Can you describe your bad boys? Specifically what’s bad about them?
• CAMillerx asked: How did you build your audience? From scratch?
• What do you do to engage your fans on social media?
• How many likes / shares and replies do you have on FB from your posts?
• Walk us through your launch, how many days before you release do you start and who you go to promote?
• Writerly asked: Do you have a personal or virtual assistant?
• Do you self-edit or hire it out?
• Do you use promos in addition to your mailing list?
• How much money do you put aside for advertising?
• How long did it take you to sustain yourself to live off your writing?
• How have you adjusted your approach when Amazon changes something?
• What motivates you to keep writing / publishing?
• Did you have to change your lifestyle when you first started out to fit your income?
• Writerly asked: Do you write or dictate? Or both?
• Tell us about the covers…
• Are you thinking long term? What’s next for Chance Carter?
• What would make you stop writing these books?
• Other than getting the next book free, what else do you offer your subscribers? Do they get something else for praising you? 😉
• Why do they like the baby?
  • Bad Boy Billionaire’s Baby
• Do you ever worry or have issues with your fans becoming too stalkery / creepy?
• How does your Dirty Secrets short story differ from your Bad Boys?
• CAMillerx asked: Do you have tips for writing a book that will sell?
• How many pen names did you have before this one?
• Which do you think got a better response: you writing openly as a man or under a female pen name?
• Who would be your dream writer to collaborate with?

Links and mentions:

• Vellum <– to create ebooks
• Createspace <– Where Chance publishes first and then uses to obtain reviews before publishing the ebook version

If you have a second, an iTunes review would be VERY appreciated!

Join us next Thursday 7pm PST / 10pm EST
when we chat with Jasmine Walt