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As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.

Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its genre, performer(s) or popularity status.

Urban Fantasy is the orphan left on the doorstep that no-one knows what to do with.

The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it__ a winner__ trifecta and you__l be rich beyond your dreams.

She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you open the books on her shelves, you will find that the front and back covers encase white pages.

In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work.

I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.

Do I get bored from books or films?No, I don't get I get bored from genre so I change it and start something new...

True emotions yearn for genre love of God

If there__ a zeppelin, it__ alternate history. If there__ a rocketship, it__ science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it__ fantasy. A book with swords and horses in it can be turned into science fiction by adding a rocketship to the mix. If a book has a rocketship in it, the only thing that can turn it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.

Science fiction, as a genre is fundamentally about ideas. It's about asking an impossible question, "What if...?" and building a story out of the answer.Romance on the other hand, is fundamentally about relationships. The hypothetical romance transposed to the past could be rewritten without the futuristic elements and still work as a story, which is something that can't happen with SF. It works in romance, because the story is the relationship and that depends on character, not setting.Lots of books take elements from multiple genres, and there are elements that put them into one genre or another, but setting isn't a key determinant.

This is the fiction that I__ referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quiltings of narrative.

Fuck, if only __esthetic idiom_ didn__ sound so damn poncy.

The spelunkers of speculative fiction mining phosphorescent filth from the bowels of the city of New Sodom, the Sci-Fi freaks scraping kipple and back from the bins of decades-old shit sandwiches out back, composting it to grow shrooms, we have built this thing to take its

_ No SF novel ever won the Booker, growls a prowling clansman on his way into the SF Café.The librarian swings a shotgun from inside her longcoat, blasts the bullshit axiom from the air. Screw the Booker, she thinks. She__ rather have a hookah.

__t__ not Sci-Fi, we insist, It__ SF.Every time you say that a Venusian Slime Boy dies, you know.

Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we__e talking now, not factuality but possibility.

the crescent sun is high, the moon low; life is not for the faint-hearted; so why the fuck should art be?