Tag: multicultural genre for novels

Learning to Fall

Learning to Fall

Between summer and winter, we are in fall, a season I have found particularly advantageous for writing.  The earth tilts away from the sun, our light source.  Yet though the days grow shorter, the light appears longer across the ground.  With this particular slant of light we begin to turn inward like plants do.  We […]

October 8, 2013 | By | 16 Replies More
Fitting in a Genre

Fitting in a Genre

Shortly after completing the original draft of Duty and Desire, I learned that all novels had to fit in a genre. Multicultural was the in-word at the time and it appeared to “fit” my work. But when I asked myself if my characters were multicultural, the answer was no. They were characters whose opinions, values, beliefs, […]

August 7, 2012 | By | 37 Replies More