Hardboiled paranormal


S.K. Reviews The Dresden Files

I’m going to let you in on a guilty pleasure I’ve been indulging for a few months. Back in the winter, I was trolling around, looking for something to read—something with magic, something with action, something new to me but well-rated that I had missed in previous trolling-for-good-books activities. Honestly, sometimes I wonder where I was for half my life. Oh, yeah. I was working at a soul-sucking job to earn a living. And while I was thusly engaged, I […]


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Choosing Novel Categories: Is Hard-Boiled, Crime Fiction, Paranormal/Fantasy Mystery Too Much?

An incredibly complex task associated with writing books is determining under which categories–i.e. genres–to list them. Is it a Romance or a Thriller? It seems reductive to categorize any book in such a narrow way. Nonetheless, we must have labels, so we catalog and organize books into genres, subgenres, and sub-subgenres to help interested readers find the perfect read—and so certain giant online retailers can judge us by our genre. I’m getting ready to publish a couple more books—and update […]