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My favorite novel of all time, The Book of Strange New Things, is my favorite because it combines two aspects of literature that I've never seen combined before: sci-fi worldbuilding and understated emotional drama. It's non-classifiable using our current genre system. Unfortunately for me, I love both of those things - speculative fiction AND literary fiction. But I rarely see them done well together.

I have to imagine you and I aren't the only ones who like the liminal space between established corridors of genre. In fact, my work-in-progress novel is designed to be that exact sort of thing. A crossover book. The only real question is if any publisher will like it well enough to sell it.

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I think I'm a bit like you in terms of writing and niches. While you will most definitely find something fantasy or sci-fi in my stories, they don't always stay in the same niche. I see my readers as people who aren't too fussed about genre as long as there's something not of this world within the pages.

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