I used to believe firmly in genres, and in the idea that a author could only write one of them at a time. Either a book was high fantasy or it was science fiction. Occasionally you could blend two of the together and write, say, a historical steampunk novel, but there were strict rules to …
• How do you decide which project to work on? Generally the project chooses me rather than vice versa. The process is always the same – I get an idea for a character or a theme or a genre mashup, and that idea simmers for months as things are added to it. Once the cauldron …
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Don’t. Obviously this post has to be longer than a single word (because somebody somewhere said single-word blog posts don’t hold readers, or…something). I have approximately 358,713,498,000,000 pet peeves when it comes to writing, and love interests = one of them. Possibly several. I see this absolutely everywhere, from blockbuster films to amateur YA novels, …