What is yours?

[R.S.]

I love writing psychological thrillers. The twists and turns that I can play with in those kinds of books are fascinating :) But I equally like writing fun new adult books too to balance it all out.

[George]

I like writing general fiction and short stories. I haven't read much genre fiction for various reasons, but I'm looking to break into them.

[Kait]

I write and read traditional mysteries. But I admit, I'll read anything handy.

[Brian]

Short stories. Realistic fiction.

[Lynn]

After writing the non-fiction book "Fringe Florida: Travels Among Mud Boggers, Furries, Ufologists, Nudists, and Other Lovers of Unconventional Lifestyles" (University Press of Florida, 2013), I am at last focusing on fiction, my life-long dream. I'm revising a murder mystery called "Desert Fish" that I've had in a box for several years. I also like to write Southern fiction that reflects the world in which I was raised.

[Victor]

Like George and B.L., short stories, non-genre fiction, and classics.

[C.J.]

I'm a fan of Southern fiction in particular, though I have a love of John Irving's work as well. I like stories with a bit of mystery and nods to Southern Gothic. Second Wind Publishing released my Southern action/adventure fiction Hurricane Ron last week. Greetings, all. Just recently joined in the hopes of finding some good recommendations for undiscovered talent. Just finished Go Set a Watchman and have mixed feelings on that. Recently reread Faulkner, McCammon and Groom.

[Victor]

CJ - You are the first I've come across who read Harper Lee's latest. I was considering buying it as a gift for my mother, for whom To Kill a Mockingbird is a long-time favorite. In your opinion, does Go Set a Watchman complement or ruin the original work?

[C.J.]

Victor wrote: "CJ - You are the first I've come across who read Harper Lee's latest. I was considering buying it as a gift for my mother, for whom To Kill a Mockingbird is a long-time favorite. In you..."

It does neither. I find it best to consider it a separate work, or perhaps as one that informed her writing of TKAM. You can see rough caricatures of folks from TKAM and you just cannot compare. I believe Ms Lee's editors made the right recommendation that she scrap it and write from Scout's perspective as a child during the trial.

[Wesley]

I write science fiction but read all speculative fiction, classics, thrillers, as well as a lot of nonfiction. I've read a ton of history, philosophy, current events, biography, and law.