Crossing the Writing Genre Barrier!
My Guest Today is Rick Reed Anyone that’s published has discovered how hard it is to try and cross the genre barrier. ‘Once a police procedural writer, always a police procedural writer.’ Or true crime. Or romance. Or private investigator. Or…well, you get the picture. The hardest thing a writer has to overcome is a publisher’s notion that policemen, and police women, make good sources for true crime books, and some can even write a true crime book, but very few can cross the line from writing true crime to writing fiction . I’ve been lucky enough to cross the barrier. My first book, BLOOD TRAIL, is the true crime account of serial killer, Joseph Weldon Brown. I had the good—or bad—fortune to have been the detective that caught him, and an editor from Kensington Books contacted me to co-author the book with their writer. It was a hit! But it took Kensington Books two years to ...