One of the nice things about being a writer in the modern era is the ability to switch genres.
I mean, historically authors could (and did!), but since historic authors were usually beholden to a publisher who would refuse to publish anything they weren’t completely convinced would sell out instantly… I mean, don’t get me wrong. I would give my left leg to be a traditionally published author with a solid contract (sigh), but it is limiting.
Whereas I can write and publish anything I want! It just turns out that what I really want to publish is sci-fi.
But I was thinking during my morning run today (solid time, 3km in 18:20.22, which is very good for me) that if I wanted to write a sci-fi romance, I absolutely could. Which reminded me that I have written a sci-fi romance (albeit a short story) and it sold to a traditional publisher who paid real-world USD for it. Humbly, I think it was very good! I’m proud of that story.
Which made me think that maybe for the novel after my next novel (I’m working on number 9 right now, so novel 10) I’d write a big sci-fi romance. It might be fun! And there’s no publisher (yet) to tell me that I shouldn’t do that.
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!