![]() With 2017’s “Unbound,” he returned to a romantic tale in an exotic setting, 16th-century China, even as he took his biggest risk yet: abandoning traditional publishing for self-publishing. While many publishers strictly pigeonhole their authors, Shors clearly wasn’t content to remain on a reservation, even a successful one of his own making, and he soon expanded into contemporary stories that veered away from the romantic setup of his early novels. Even when he moved closer to the present, as in the World War II-set “Beside a Burning Sea” - notice the similarity in titles - he was exploring much the same emotional territory. ![]() Lafayette’s John Shors has taken some interesting chances with his career since publishing his 2004 debut novel, the much-believed and well-reviewed historical romance “Beneath a Marble Sky,” set in and around India’s majestic Taj Mahal.Īt first, he stayed in the groove etched by that early success, publishing novels like “Temple of a Thousand Faces,” another historical romance, this time set at Cambodia’s famous Angkor Wat. ![]()
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