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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 Writing Wednesday: Cross-Genre Love

I didn't know what I'd write today until I returned from the post office. At the end of May I make my annual pilgrimage to ConQuest, a science fiction convention held in the Kansas City area (www.kcsciencefiction.org), and since I love spreading the word about cross-genre romance, I put out a call for promo items. So far, I've gotten probably items from nearly a dozen authors, and don't worry, there's room for plenty more. It's like Christmas at my house. Package upon package full of bookmarks and postcards and even bumper stickers for awesome books that need to be added to my "to buy" lists. If we get good karma for buying books, I've got it made. :)

And this is what makes me excited to be a writer at this point in my career (no, not the good karma, haha). The cross-genre love. I discovered fantasy when I was 16 by finding a copy of Mercedes Lackey's Magic's Pawn at my local K-Mart. The book featured a very handsome young man (Vanyel, too bad he's gay), and a horse on the cover. Boys and horses. Yep, even back then I had my priorities straight. LOL! And thus, my personal fusion of fantasy/science fiction and romance was born.

Now, I can write across genres. I mix my polar bear shape shifters with romance, or maybe set my love stories in a science fiction universe dominated by the Concordance. Or, I have a fantasy priestess needing to find the love of her prince. No matter how you categorize it, most of what I write is science fiction romance.

I write across genres, baby, and yeah, I can feel the love!

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