I may have scared my muse away again. Which means I’m sitting around in my downtime thinking instead of writing. And we all know how well too much thinking turns out.
At the moment, I’m trying to puzzle out why Grey and my Arcana Ancien series just isn’t selling. Both of us have had great luck with M/M/F threesome stories in the past, with very little marketing on our parts. Yet with Arcana Ancien, we’re at a complete loss as to why Graeme, Peter, and Diana haven’t found an audience.
Our solo M/M/F stories were both historicals and odd time periods at that. Grey’s Sanctity of Marriage takes place in the late-1800s, and my Modus Vivendi at the tail end of World War One. Neither are times one thinks of when they hear “historical”. Of course the question then becomes whether our modest successes were due to writing historical M/M/Fs or that our historicals were more unique time periods.
In contrast, the Arcana Ancien books are in a contemporary setting. For the most part, contemporary M/M/Fs tend to fair pretty well. Not as good as M/M, but what does? 
The series also has paranormal aspects, which is usually a fairly popular area. However, it’s a different area of paranormal. We deal primarily with magic and the occasional demon. No vamps or weres.
Also, our characters are older: late-thirties to early-forties. Did we cross some age line that M/M/F readers don’t care for? Then again, Grey’s Sanctity dealt with characters at least in their mid-thirties. So…
Or is it maybe due to the fact that we have both of our names on the cover? Should we maybe consider broadening our India identity’s horizons, or maybe figure out a threesome and het joint identity to write under?
We love the Arcana Ancien characters and the world we’ve created so much that it’s disheartening when so few people read it. Ultimately, it’s not about the numbers for us, though high numbers are really nice. It would just be nice to figure out why our other M/M/Fs work and this one doesn’t.
And thinking about one thing leads to another, and now I’m fretting about poor Landa and Last Thought with its many pairings and odd focus in the paranormal.
Time to stop thinking and have some chocolate. That makes everything better, right?
