Genre & Audience: “It’s romance… but, not really…”

“So, you wrote a book, huh? Congrats! Er, hmph… romance? Ahh… not my cup of tea…”

Let’s get one thing straight. As I clarify in my Hart & Cole Author Q&A, I am not a romance writer.

Or, at least, I never saw myself as a romance writer.

But it’s easy to see how genres blur into each other and become something else.

After all, the now-infamous erotica trilogy started out as “Twilight” fan fiction, and readers (who perhaps never even knew it was ever fan fiction!) may spend months arguing over...