Civilian Reader Asks: “Should You Read What You Write?”

Civilian Reader is one of the blogs I have been following of recent times—you will find the link in the side bar. It’s newish on the books and genre scene, but then again, so am I… So it seemed suitably serendipitous to answer the Civilian’s call for guest posts on “Should You Read What You Write?”

Nor was I alone—writers as diverse as Gail Carriger, Mark Lawrence, Anne Lyle, and Jon Courtenay-Grimwood, amongst others, have all weighed in.

It would appear though, that I was alone in interpretin...