Are You Genre Promiscuous?

An argument for and against sticking to a fiction niche

Simon Dillon
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readApr 27, 2021

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Authors are sometimes advised to pick a genre and stick to it. I’ve always ignored such advice. My fiction writing covers a variety of genres, primarily gothic mysteries, and children’s adventure novels. I’ve also dabbled in science fiction, dystopian, romance, and am branching into fantasy. Does such genre promiscuity make…

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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com