Multiple Roads Diverging in a Wood

For better or worse, I'm comfortable writing in multiple styles: press releases, computer manuals, brochures, articles, grant applications and fiction.

I realize that readers like the authors they read to fit into a comfortable niche so that when each new book comes out, there are no surprises.

Pigeonholes don't excite me. Yet, it's an understatement I think to say that those who read my 2004 magical, coming-of-age novel "The Sun Singer" were surprised when I followed that up in August with the...