Writing Process: (Don’t) Follow the trends

If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

-Toni Morrison

I promise this won’t happen to other genres. (Credit: Kiss Them Goodbye)

While publisher-author contracts may be pulling toward a certain genre at the moment, that doesn’t mean your other favorite genres have died anddisappeared from The Other Side, a la Vampire Diariesstyle.Trend alerts exist for writers to be cognizant of what readers want, not what writers should feel pressured to...