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I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

I don't write to a genre.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.

I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.

While I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

Like most writers, I read deeply into the genre in which I write.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.