My assessor said I blended genres. She worked with me on my first novel, and while I liked books, it never dawned on me their genres were so rigid. I had television experience and in the film and TV world, blending and re-inventing genres was normal. When I started promoting myself and my book, Drama …
So you want to write a romance – Guest Blog by Tanya Chris
The first time I'd ever heard of H.E.A. was for a review of my first novel. In it my story was being criticised for not having a standard H.E.A. so I had to look up what it meant. Now, this first book, Drama Queens with Love Scenes, contains a love story, but it's a farce about …
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Slipping between genres.
"You're mixing genres." This wasn't said to me as a negative. It was an observation from an editor when I had the initial draft of my first novel assessed. At the time, I didn't realise this was such a big deal. Cinema had made an art of combining genres for a long time. Surely, literature was equally as experimental. But …
