Several more months passed while I researched, plotted, and wrote the proposal for The Last Warrior . It took me nearly another year to write the book. So I know it's done quite well. My conclusions come from the evidence, because Leisure won't release any actual numbers to the author. I like to make the adventure and science fiction as much an integral part of the story as the romantic relationship.
Leisure likes to lean more toward the relationship.
Nighthawk was not yet on the shelves, so Leisure didn't know that it would do so well. The fact that distributors have little confidence in speculative romance doesn't help. Such low volume makes it difficult for a publisher to recoup their investment in the cover, typesetting, and all the other things that go into putting a book on the shelves. Historical romance has always been my favorite subgenre. That's what I started out writing, so it was very comfortable to pursue that type of story for The Last Warrior .