Writing For Your Audience

What I’m reading: Cover of Snow, by Jenny Milchman

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There are those who say genre fiction is formulaic. I’m with those who say there are genre expectations. A romance must have a happily ever after; a mystery should resolve the crime. A thriller should deal with a world-threatening crisis. As I’ve been working on my next Blackthorne, Inc. book, which have been categorized as “action adventure romance,” I’m dealing with what amounts to a promise to...