I just wanted to quickly post this to ask whether the writers on here feel as though they are typecast by genre, (even though most aren't published, nor mainstream).
The reason that I ask is because my first novel is a fantasy novel more than anything, but (as you can see from my website) I don't just want to be stuck in one genre feeling as though I always have to write about that kind of work. I am in the middle of reviewing a piece on here and it is about a writer who is asked about a follow up book to his first book and when it's said it's not in the same genre as the first and he doesn't want to be labelled, they don't want to know.
I have just started writing my second novel "Pieces of a Dream" and it is a crime novel (I hope), which will be completely different to the fantasy novel, The Angel of Darkness.
Do you think that will be a good thing, or a negative? I want to write all kinds of things, but how realistic is that really? Or will it all depend on how successful I may or may not become?
"Sometimes a little ambition goes a long way"
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