Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.