“You have said on your blog that most of your reading time these days goes to non-fiction. If you’re not reading too much of your peers’ work, what do you do to keep yourself apprised of market trends, if you consider them at all?
I am the market trend. A ha ha. But seriously, I think if you’re watching the market to see what you should be writing you’re (a) going to write a rubbish version of what other people are writing, and (b) a couple of years too late anyway. Regardless of trends there will always be a place for quality, original fiction of any kind, and I think your best chance of producing that is to (a) write what you love and not what you think other people might like, and (b) try to be as honest and truthful as possible and find your own voice, and you do that by (c) not reading slavishly within any one genre, especially if you intend to write in it.”
4 out of 5
