With so many different genres out there that I enjoy, it wasn’t easy deciding which one I wanted to write in. For the past year, I’d been writing romance novels under a different pen name.

The reason I was writing in that genre was simple: money. I’d heard that romance was easy to break into and that its readers were insatiable, always looking for new books and new authors.

Not surprisingly, my heart wasn’t in it. Before I decided to start writing romance, I’d never read a single romance novel in my entire life. Now I’m not judging anyone else, but they’re just not my thing. Porn? All day long. Romance novels? Not so much.

When I first heard about LitRPG as a genre, I was excited. I’ve always enjoyed reading fantasy and sci-fi novels and although I don’t play video games anymore, I used to love role-playing games. It only made sense that I’d enjoy this up-and-coming genre and I was right.

The first LitRPG book I read was Ready Player One. It seemed like a good introduction to the genre. I read it within a few days and really liked it. From there, I read another. And another. And then, I made the decision: I was going to stop writing romance and start writing LitRPG.

So that’s when I started plotting and writing Inside Out. Unlike with writing romance, I found that I really enjoyed writing LitRPG. That is, after all, why I got into writing in the first place – because I genuinely enjoy it.

And there you have it! That is, in a nutshell, how I got started writing LitRPG. I’m halfway through writing the second book in the Bloodfeast series and I’m enjoying myself quite a bit.

I plan on writing LitRPG for the foreseeable future. I think the Bloodfeast series is gonna end up being a trilogy. When I’m done with all three books, I’m planning on writing a longer stand-alone LitRPG novel.

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