Alan Place - how do you see me?
A writer with no comfort zone or genre Over the past 15 years, people have viewed my writing in several ways/genres, but I have not stayed in a genre, even if like my science fiction series https://hereiamattheedge.blogspot.com/2015/09/my-best-sellers-keep-selling.html they sold well. The reason for this is I wish to be seen as a writer , not a genre writer. The problem with trendsetters is the trend dies quickly, look at the sales for the Mayan Calendar books in 2012. Where are those books now? Sitting on a shelf, with no hopes for a sale, sad for the book, but the writer doesn't care - they made their killing at the time. Science fiction won't die, but its definition will alter greatly as we change how we explore science . An excellent example of what I mean can be seen in Star Trek , in the late 60s when the series began; hand-held devices were considered sci-fi, and now most of us have a cellphone . Though I have no comfort zone, there are areas I have ...