Thank you Alex Cavanaugh for hosting this monthly event, and thanks so much to this month's co-hosts: Sarah - The Faux Fountain Pen Jacqui Murray, Chemist Ken, Victoria Marie Lees, Natalie Aguirre, and JQ Rose!
This month's optional question is:
Everyone has a favorite genre or genres to write. But what about your reading preferences? Do you read widely or only within the genre(s) you create stories for? What motivates your reading choice?
I was a reader long before I became a writer. To me, a reader is a reader is a reader. Give me something good to read, whatever the genre, and I'll read it. Anything from inspirational and motivational to classic literature.
But the mystery genre is my go-to. It's what I read to relax and escape.
There are so many sub-genres to a mystery. I write in a sub genre called cozy mystery. But to go even further, I write in the sub-sub genre called paranormal cozy mystery. My paranormal cozies include ghosts, but other paranormal cozy mysteries might include witches and other paranormal creatures such as werewolves, vampires, or even fairies and elves, which sort of crosses over into fantasy.
Though I write cozies, as a reader, in recent years my go-to mystery is a police procedural by classic authors such as Ian Rankin, or the late P.D. James. Or historical cozies by Jacqueline Winspear. I still love the classic cozies, as well, such as those by the late author M.C. Beaton.
BUT, I'm always desperate for something inspirational and motivational, so please feel free to drop your recommendations in the comments!
Do you write in genres other than your reading preferences?
Do you read widely?
Have a go-to genre?
Have a motivational/inspirational recommendation?
