When I first set out to write The First Baseman’s Grumpy Fan, I’d intended to write it as a closed-door romance. For a portion of the book, Gale and Finn complied. As writing continued, Gale kept asking me what would happen if she just slept with him. So I wrote an extended scene for her, never intended for the book. Then Finn started poking his nose in, pointing out how he’d change a scene way earlier in the book. So I wrote something for him too. But they weren’t done. By the time they were satisfied, I had several scenes with spicy tweaks and some completely new spicy scenes, so I wondered what would happen if I made two separate versions of the story. One with the door closed, and one with it open.
Not content to just walk readers to the door and close it for those who prefer that version, I retooled scenes entirely. Sometimes you can infer if they ever walked to the door at all. It’s all in how you read it.
Also, if information came out while writing the scenes for one version, I found a way to incorporate it in the other in a natural way.
So no matter how you prefer your doors to be when you read, you can find your happily ever after with my books.
Hearts
Heat
Sweet, closed-door versions without swearing that feature only kissing but retain the smolder.
Spicy, open-door versions with some explicit language and all the sex scenes on the page.
* Closed-door books are all in series with the name ending in Hearts. Open-door books are all in series with the name ending in Heat.
** For those wondering, yes, it does make for a lot of extra work. Additional editing. Double the interior formatting. Extra cover work, but not quite twice the amount of doing one. Double the proof copies. But it’s worth it.