#5 is a First by Being a 2nd

 
New Fairy Moon, my fifth indie-published novel, is the first novel I’ve released that has the potential for overlap with the readers of another of my novels, The Girl Who Ran With Horses.
 
My short stories and collections have varying amounts of reader overlap–though I have no consistent genre except the catch-all of “spec-fic”–but not my first four novels. In those four novels there is no discernible “trend” in genre or target reader. I just wrote stuff I liked and put it out there.
 
New Fairy Moon, though, and the series that will grow from it, happened because my daughter, who was 9 at the time, read The Girl Who Ran With Horses–and declared it, “Awesome!” Admittedly, she is hardly an unbiased reader, but I decided I wanted more of that action.
 
The Girl Who Ran With Horses has a slightly older target audience, more teenager/young adult with less emphasis on the fantasy elements, while New Fairy Moon is written for tweens and younger teens. Still, that’s quite a bit closer than any other pair of my novels.
 
As I accumulate more novels, I’m sure they’ll sort out into clear-ish genres and target readers. Especially over the next 3-4 I have planned (more GoSH and Gunwitch). But even after I go back to writing as the darker whimsy whispers, I expect there’ll be similarities to titles I’ve already written. Or maybe I’ll forge my own “David Michael” genre that includes everything.
 
-David
 
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