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What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

At the end of the day, I'm writing in a genre that isn't highly regarded.

All writing and publishing is very difficult, regardless of genre. There are going to be obstacles no matter what.

If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

I think you can spread yourself across any number of genres when you're a writer as long as you have a deep, abiding love for each of them.

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

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

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.

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