When you have more than 40 novels to your name -- many of them bestsellers -- you can write whatever you like. That’s what author Sandra Brown suggests everyone do.
"You have to write what you like. It's too hard and time consuming not to enjoy the work. You have to write what you'd like to read.
And what does she like? In the beginning, she wrote romance novels that followed constrained outlines and formulas. "It’s more fun and more lucrative to write my own stuff for a broader audience." She's written under four pen names -- but now, everything is published under Sandra Brown.
She still has a heart for romance, but now she also writes thrillers and mysteries. “A good writer won’t be pigeonholed into one genre. A good writer should stretch out.”
You can stretch out at Sandra’s website.
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Dennis, I've always thought that was a neat thing. I've read a lot of books, but someone is always asking me "have you read so and so" and I'm blown away by the number of writers I haven't heard of.
A good example is this: How many of the last 20 Nobel Prize novels can you name? Or National Book Award winners? Or Pulitzer Prize winners.
There are so many writers -- even the famous and acclaimed ones -- that some of them many of us haven't even heard of!
I guess that makes for a lifetime of fun exploration.
Hey, that's the good thing about the computor. Google can answer those in seconds. :)
Have fun exploring! For Life!