Tuesday's Writer's Tip Choosing a Genre #MFRWAuthor #BWLAuthor #Genres #Romance #Mystery #Fantasy #Science Fiction #Horror

After the ide for a book comes the decision as to what genre you want to choose. There are a number of different ones out there. Almost any idea can be twisted to fit into any genre. So look at your idea and decide.

Many writers choose one genre to spend their entire career writing. They may take a little venture into one of the subgenres for a time but the main genre is the one they like to write andmay one they like to read. So let's look at what can happen.

Suppose history is your goal. Historical novels come in many packages. There are the ones that are close to realism. There are ones that choos a particular era like Regency, Georgian and many other. There are historical novels that are mainly romance, or mystery or even have a touch of fantasy.

Romance is another large category. Think of the books you've read that are listed as romance. There can be touches of history, ystery and all of the other categories.

The same applies to Mystery, Think of the different ones you've read and see where they fit. Thereare those with a touchof paranormal, or romance or many things.

So when you look at your idea, look at the genre and decide which category and which sub-category you've chosen to write. Maybe even look at how it could fit into one of the other categories. Choosing a genre can be an adventure abd take you on a new path.

Friday Dee S. Knight is visiting today and Telling us Who She was Before #MFRWAuthor

1.       What were you in your life before you became a writer? Did this influence you?

      Before writing my first book I was a technical writer. Well, that isn’t wholly accurate. I was a Christmas gift wrapper (professionally but not as a profession, thankfully, No patience!), a clerk, an acquisitions librarian, a trucker, a computer applications consultant, a teacher, and then a technical writer. That makes it sound as though I had a hard time holding down a job, doesn’t it? But those jobs were over the course of about 26 years. I guess you could say everything I did helped prepare me for writing—the variety of places we traveled and then lived, and the wide breadth of experiences my husband and I shared. So many of them found a way into one book or another.

2.         2  Are you genre specific or general? Ithink I’m pretty general, although everything as Dee S. Knight has been erotic romance and mostly contemporary. I wrote first one regular contemporary erotic romance and then an adult fairy tale. The third was paranormal, and the fourth was normal contemporary again. I’ve also written a couple of space opera ménage books. Under another name, I’ve written wolf shape shifters and two historical ménage series. Again, under another name, I even wrote a ménage about a nun. Please don’t run screaming from the room! It isn’t at all trashy, and (as it turns out) the girl was never intended to be a nun. The book is set at the end of the Korean War and is a play about family and (especially) mothers. Anyway, I’ve explored a lot of sub-genre!

3.       Did your reading choices have anything to do with your choice of genre or sub-genre? Not really. I didn’t read all that many romances before I started writing, and to tell the truth, I didn’t know such a thing as erotic romance existed. I wrote a book and submitted it to my first publisher who said they needed more S-E-X in their books and in my ignorance (or maybe naivete?) thought, “How hard can that be?” So I wrote a book with lots of sex and sent it back. From then on, I just added sex to the stories I created. And I did eventually read other writers my publisher signed on and discovered that I like reading sexy stories as much as writing them! 😉

4.       What’s your latest release?My latest release is Book 1 of The Good Man series, Only a Good Man Will Do. A seriously ambitious man seeks woman to encourage his goals, support his (hopeful) position as Headmaster of Westover Academy, and be purer than Caesar's wife. Good luck with that!
It came out last October from Black Velvet Seductions.

5.       What are you working on now? I just finished a short story for Black Velvet’s supernatural anthology coming out in the fall. Now I’m continuing with Book 2 of The Good Man series, One Woman Only. I’ve been woefully neglectful of this book this past year due to real life, but I’m on track to finish soon. I hope everyone likes it!

6.        Where can we find you? m one of the authors on https://nomadauthors.com, along with two of my alter egos, Jan Selbourne, Amber Carlton, and Francis Drake. Also, look for me anyplace below:log: http://nomadauthors.com/blogwitter: http://twitter.com/DeeSKnightacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeeSKnight2018  Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/265222.Dee_S_Knight  Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B079BGZND  Newsletter (sample): https://preview.mailerlite.com/o2g1i0?fbclid=IwAR0COlyuPY-Hu30KTBdT092j_GZeuN5z4pc1LtsvHTyr6IbiSpsGqeIgT90

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