Well, I've gone and done it. I haven't fully thrown myself into it, but I've decided to target myself at the psychological suspense genre. Technically for novels that's psychological thrillers, but I write short stories and novellas, too, and I've always thought it was awkward calling shorter forms, "thrillers."
I've chosen this for a variety of reasons. My comfort with the form. My comfort with the author culture and fanbase. Some of my writing strengths. And the fact that psychological themes and an air of suspense tend to permeate most of what I write, regardless of genre.
One of the things that still needs to be worked out is... Rose is writing YA fantasy at the moment, and I think that's a really good home for her voice and vision. We have a number of other projects we've scoped out and/or started for us to work on together. What we need to figure out is, if I'm classing myself as psychological suspense and she's classing herself as YA fantasy, how do we want to focus our work together? I'll let you know how that goes!
As I try on these genre shoes for a few days, I'll let you know how that goes, too! If I settle into it well, I will probably re-package my blog a little to emphasize that style.
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Yay for decisions made! Good luck finding that middle ground with your wife. Perhaps you can join forces and write a psychological fantasy suspense YA.
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Sounds like a really good fit! Hey, I might need your advice with a new concept I'm thinking about for a YA book. It involves intrigue as well as the ubiquitous (sp?) kissing. haha
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Casey -- sounds like a yummy pizza with everything! LOL
ReplyDeleteDeb -- Anytime! I love to talk with writers. I find a lot of the best ideas come from conversations with other writers. And I will trust you to not disappear me! haha
Okay, I have a technical question about posting that is probably so obvious I'll die of embarrassment...how the heck do you italicize and bold text in the comment window?? I'm missing something really easy huh?
ReplyDeleteHey, Deb -- it's easy enough, but if you don't know it, you won't just figure it out. lol
ReplyDeleteFor italics, substitute angle brackets (less than and greater than) for the square brackets:
[i]this part is in italics[/i]
The I turns it o. The /I turns it off.
For bold, it's the same idea:
[b]this part is in bold[/b]
Except, as before, you use angle brackets not square brackets.
Make sense?
Oh geez, thank you!!!! Sometimes I'm clueless...
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