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Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.

The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.

Publishing can be tough. It has the ability to kill dreams.

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

Writing a novel that crosses genres is a risk, but one well worth taking.

It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.