Yes You Can Write In More Than One Genre. Here's how: Episode 318 flips the shelves.

Oh yeah we&#8217;ve been there. Heck, we are there. Pigeonholed. Safe in our little bunker. Maybe just a tiny bit typecast. Jumping genres can be exciting, scary, nerve-wracking. But it can be done.<br/><br/>Everybody gravitates to one genre or another when we get started. Maybe nonfiction feels a little less threatening&#8212;or maybe it feels too hard and fiction is your starting place of choice. Maybe you&#8217;ve been writing rom-coms but are sure you have a thriller in you, or the other way around. Are you giving up everything you&#8217;ve learned, or everything you&#8217;ve gained if you&#8217;re published?<br/><br/>That would be no and maybe kinda but not necessarily in a bad way, in that order. <br/><br/>This week we&#8217;re tackling the question of genre-hopping, in part because Sarina&#8217;s going thriller, KJ&#8217;s tackling magical realism and Jess is drafting fiction, and in part because listener and thriller writer <a target="_blank" href="https://aggieblumthompson.com">Aggie Thompson</a> sent us this plaintive missive: <br/><br/><em>I am a thriller writer, published by Forge/Macmillan, and my debut -- </em><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781250773913"><em>I DON&#8217;T FORGIVE YOU</em></a><em> -- came out summer 2021. My second book is coming out this July &#8211; </em><a target="_blank" href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781250773982"><em>ALL THE DIRTY SECRETS</em></a><em> &#8211; and I am currently waiting to hear back from my editor regarding my proposal for my the third book. Which means I refresh my email more than a couple of times a day. And I am at my wits end as to what to do with myself.</em><br/><br/><em>I don&#8217;t want to work on book no. 3 in case the answer is no, or even a yes &#8211; but needs lots of work. So start something new, right? But what I am yearning to write is waaaaayy off genre. Something light and funny where no one gets killed. Maybe it&#8217;s coming out of the pandemic, or just some personal stuff I have dealt with over the past two years