I don't think I would ever inch my way up to Y.A. That audience is very well served. There are a lot of wonderful writers writing for Y.A. I feel like I'm in the right place.
I don't write romance novels.
I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.
My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit.
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.
There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.
Chick-lit may be staggering on its heels, but women's fiction is alive and kicking.
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.
