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Breaking out of the genre straitjacket

Breaking out of the genre straitjacket

At times, it feels like someone has a gun pointed at my head.

“Choose a genre. Sci-fi. Dystopia. Supernatural thriller — it doesn’t matter. Just pick one. But then don’t you ever step outside the prescribed tropes. Or your writing career’s gonna be in the toilet, capisce?”

As an author working on a couple of future releases which I’d describe as “supernatural thrillers set on another world,” I chafe at the implied genre constraints.

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Café Espresso Attack

Café Espresso Attack

(Dissident flash fiction #2)

In Dissident, we are introduced to a new POV (point-of-view) character: Connor Sinclair.

Connor is typical in many ways: a history major in his first-year of university, just shy of his eighteenth birthday, with a tight-knit circle of friends and a favorite café hangout.

He’s also a Hoarder (one of the bad guys).

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