Writers We All Should Be Studying, Or Does Genre Matter? by Josh Stallings

Q: Besides manuals, which books do you think make good masterclass material for crime writers?

A: I’m not a big fan of genre and sub-genre. As a reader they limit my exposure, “Oh you like hardboiled, you’ll love book X.” But wait I also love books from other sections, or I might if you ever showed me them. Does bitching about the algorithm sound hopelessly 2019? 

As a writer I find genre and sub-genre very useful. We write books that live in a linage of other books. I want to know what came befor...