Gaming the System With Book Genres

Gaming the System With Book Genres.

Some years ago, I was at a conference where Lee Child was a guest speaker. Until right before that conference, I hadn’t read any of his books, because they were advertised as thrillers, and I didn’t read thrillers. My understanding, based on what I’d heard about the genre was that a thriller was a suspenseful book with “consequences of global proportions.” Not my thing.

After my first Blackthorne, Inc. book was released, I saw reviews referring to it as a “thriller.” No...