YA Indie Carnival - Week Three

Welcome back to week three of the YA Indie Carnival . The third question being answered by theparticipating Indie Authors is 'Whatmade you pursue your chosen genre?'  Takea few minutes to visit our sites, read our responses, and leave us a comment.  We love hearing from you.
This particulartopic is timely as it relates to The Warrior Series.  Over the last several months, I've noticed a healthydebate between reviewers about Warriors of the Cross and its genre.  It's been labeled as young adult, paranormalromance, medical fiction, family saga, and Christian fiction.  While I've said all along this seriestranscends genres, the discussion has made me analyze how and why I wrote astory difficult to pigeonhole into one single category. 
In the end, I've decided The Warriors Series' various labels mimic each individual reason I began writing.  For example, I chose paranormal because it allowed me the opportunity to create a world I could control...a world where dying people could be healed with something as simple as touch. 
As a registerednurse, I naturally chose to write a medical fiction which included doctors,nurses, hospitals, and patients.  Therealism of healthcare made an impossible power suddenly possible.  The topic allowed me to invent an exceptionalpower for the main character while creating a woman/doctor who is the perfectrole-model for young girls.
I veered towardromance after I realized my teenage daughter LOVED romantic novels.  It was a time when she had begun growingdistant.  Whenshe talked about the stories and their characters, she became animated and revertedback to my daughter rather than a stranger. Our shared love of books reunited us and ignited a friendship.  Before long, we had our own book club.  After I wrote Warriors of the Cross , she critiqued the story and saw we were more alike than we were different. 
Honestly, I'dnever even heard of Christian fiction until someone categorized Warriors of the Cross as a book of that genre.  While Iunderstand how the series earned its label, I'm confident it is such a thoroughmixture of young adult, paranormal, medical, and Christian fiction that no onething is overpowering.  In fact, it isthe perfect balance of genres, which makes it unlike any other book I've everread.  It is a unique choice in a marketsaturated with the predictable.

The authors teaming with me and sponsoring this carnival have books that are anything but predictable.  Join me in visiting their sites.
NEXT, take a ride with: 
Dani Snell - Book Blogger Refracted Light Young Adult Book Reviews Pattie Larsen - Author

Henry      Curiosities, Inc. Cat City Courtney Cole - Author

Every Last Kiss: The Bloods (Volume 1) Fated (The Bloodstone Sage)      Princess Wren Emerson - Author

I Wish... (The Witches of Desire)     
Nicole Williams - Author
Eternal Eden Fallen Eden (soon to be released)
Fisher Amelie - Author
The Understorey (The Leaving Series)
P. J. Hoover - Author Solstice The Emerald Tablet (Forgotten Worlds) The Necropolis: The Forgotten Worlds, Book 3   The Navel of the World (The Forgotten Worlds, Book 2)  Laura Elliott - Author
Kindergarten Ghost Winnemucca, a small-town fairy tale Amy Jones Young - Author
Soul Quest (the Soul Quest Trilogy) Rachel Coles (Rachel Coles. Geek. Mom. Book Reviews.) - Author and Book Blogger
Diary of a Duct Tape Zombie Whistles Tiffany King - Author
Meant To Be Forgotten Souls (soon to be released) Cyndi Tefft - Author
Between Alicia McCalla - Author
Breaking Free (February 2012)  Heather Cashman - Author
Perception (The Tigers' Eye Trilogy) 

T. R. Graves - Author(end up back here with me)

Warriors of the Cross Guardians of the Cross (December 2011) Enemies of the Cross (summer 2012)