With so many authors vying to be your next favorite author; here are 5 tips for readers on TRS Books. Why should we be in the running and what you should know about our offerings?

If you’re finding it more challenging to figure out just who and what you want to read next than you’re not alone.

Many people are loading there kindles with 100s of books and then facing reader fatigue.

I am a passionate nonfinisher. Life is too short, and there are too many great books to read, so if I lose interest or respect, I switch. But when, of course, when you really fall in love with a book, all the others are ignored. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

Quotes like the above are like needles to some author hearts. Many authors feel that readers cant adequately review a book if they haven’t read the whole thing. More often than not, most readers aren’t even doing the above because there are just too many.

Here are 5 tips for readers to cut through the noise and add TRS BOOKS to your must-read TBR list:

I, as an author and reader, am simply in love with a good story and as such it reflects in my writings.

When deciding what genre to write as a career, I realized what I loved about all those different movies and novels on my shelf, and it was the epic romance storylines. I could even argue that very few movies and novels are written without one. If love really does make the world go round. Then how can I not infuse that into my writings? Be that Urban Fantasy, Historical Fantasy, YA or Christian. Its the one thing that unites them all.

I’m reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It’s like food – everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ which is like candy. — Shay Mitchell

Oddly enough, I’ve never read Fifty Shades of Grey, but the sentiment stands with some of the erotic and erotica that I’ve read in the past. It also stands for the books I offer. If you want to read something uplifting than maybe you would reach for a Christian Romance. But if you haven’t read a good vampire novel in years, then you can pick that one up too. Your selection isn’t limited by whether you know the author, but by what you are passionate about at that moment enough to read.

I have lots of passions – gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books. — Zoe Wanamaker

Your reading should be as diverse as your diet and your hobbies are. Feed the interests that you have at that moment and enter a world of pure imagination.

I can’t seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn’t want to read just romance – love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn’t be cut out and restricted to its own fiction. –Rainbow Rowell

When you cut through the red tape, it’s not restricted by its own genre. Which leads me to the next point, the ideal reader of TRS Books will love romance.

You have book boyfriends and can list off the top of your head two male characters who just seemed to understand their love interests perfectly.

Now take stock of how many romantic comedies you’ve seen that came out in the early 90s. If you’re no stranger to the titles: My Best Friends Wedding and How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days. Then you’re probably the ideal reader for TRS BOOKS.

You may even remember when this love of romance started. What was your first romance novel? Was it the sweet teen romances of the Sweet Valley High series. Or something completely different? A movie perhaps?

Consider all the different titles on your shelf and what they all have in common.

Do they all have sweeping romance storylines? Is the driving force the adventure? Or perhaps there coming of age stories where the character is changed at the end by events in and out of there control? None of these themes are hemmed in by there genre.

For instance, YA isn’t the only place you can find a coming of age story. You can read about a 16-year-old who relies heavily on her parent’s decisions for fear of making her own. Until she stumbles across an Indian burial ground, and her best friend falls mysteriously ill and she has to save her by fighting the monster out to get them both. Her parents are unconvinced that this isn’t more than the flu and she’s stuck fighting this creature on her own. Searching and seeking out the truth without a hand to hold. What genre is this book: horror.

(I totally made that up. And to answer your second question, no I probably won’t write that. However, because all my books need a romance storyline, I’d probably add that her crush somehow gets involved. But since this is a coming of age then she would have to save her bestie and the crush alone.)

But when you follow TRS BOOKS and its different offerings. You get an author who doesn’t think so linearly when it comes to genre and simply tells the story that needs to be told. Giving you more options, but making it easier to decide what you’ll pick up next.

I think we worry way too much about where books should fit inside genres. In a romance, the hero and heroine are on a journey together, and no matter how awful it gets, by the end of the book they’ll be in love, with the probability of a happy ending. –Marjorie Liu

I don’t read books for the sadness. It’s an entertaining escape and that means I need my happy endings. Which is why 90% of my books will have a happy ending, but we’re going to discuss the other 10%.

I never try to give a message in my books. It’s about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn’t happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction. –Isabel Allende

Ever read that novel where the couple has been to hell and back. Yet at the end, the author still manages to tie it up into Happily Ever After, but you’re asking yourself why. They’re going to be divorced in ten years lol. Too much was lying between them said and unsaid. Nope, will not be writing that story.

No relationship is perfect, but if it doesn’t lie on a bed of mutual respect and understanding. The couple will not be forcibly (by the author) riding off into the sunset on a white horse. No suspect Christian Greys (does he respect her decisions or not) or Edward Cullen’s (did he really just slash her tires out of jealousy). That’s not to say that I won’t write these characters, but they’re not getting the girl.

Also, I tend to believe in love at second sight (just out of experience) so this will also be reflected in series mostly. So If you love a couple and want a happy ending then TRS BOOKS 100% delivers, but if you’re reading about a suspect couple. That you’re not quite sure will get over there differences, and you’re asking yourself do they belong together. Then they just might not. Realistic endings are my foray. Not death for the shock factor or HEA’s because they’re expected. The endings and epilogues of all couples will reflect the relationships they’ve been cultivating.

In the days of everything being recycled its hard for even authors to come up with unique storylines. However, when I sit down to write anything its always from the perspective of a TV producer, what do I want to watch on television that’s not being seen. What’s the plotline of this movie that hasn’t been produced yet? Then I write that story.

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told. –Barry Unsworth

I’ve come to train my mind to see a picture or short scene and immediately I think they would never produce a movie where X, Y, Z and that usually starts my brainstorming for new novel ideas. Which all go on Pinterest and a notepad that I’m keeping.

I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It’s just about, ‘What’s a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?’ –F. Gary Gray

Is it worth a reader checking out? And yes it is.

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