C.J. Rutherford asked Martin McConnell:

Do you write a single genre? Or to you cross over?

Martin McConnell Sorry I was late responding to this, it's been a busy month.

I don't think I'm defined by a genre, but at the same time there are certain things I stay away from. I don't generally write "romance" or "women's fiction." That's not to say I'm anti romance in my stories, but I don't center stories around those.

I generally stick to speculative fiction, and put some kind of speculative twist on just about everything I write, regardless of genre. I like giving readers something to think about when they are done. My favorite area is near-future sci fi, that could simply be my inner nerd talking.

I like writing horror stories and adding horror elements because they are powerful. If writing was food, horror would be hot peppers. I have some dystopian fiction in draft, so that might be releasing in the near future, and I'm also plotting a realistic space military sci-fi. I want to explore how interplanetary combat might really be handled in 50-150 years when space exploration really starts to ramp up, from ship design to detection and evasion, etc. It's proving to be a very tricky subject matter, but lucky for me, I have some friends who are experts.

That was a long answer, huh? At the end of the day, I'll write just about anything that strikes my fancy, and over time my "genre pool" is getting wider and deeper.

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