I confess to being a little muddled at this month’s Blog Tour topic.\u00a0 I’ve heard of gender crossing, and, certainly, cross-dressing.\u00a0 The term isn’t used for women much, but I do a lot of cross dressing.\u00a0 Men’s clothing has always been more durable — both in construction and fashion.\u00a0 I’ve been tall with longer legs for most of my life, so the only way to get pants long enough or long sleeves that come below mid-forearm, I’ve had to purchase men’s clothing.\u00a0 That works fine for casual clothing, but for dressier things, I’ve had more of a challenge.\u00a0 But you didn’t come here to read about clothes shopping challenges.<\/p>\n
I’ve spent a rather long and convoluted time telling you I don’t think I have much to add to the genre crossing discussion.\u00a0 I used to prefer techno thrillers or military thrillers (Tom Clancy’s early work was my favorite for years as were similar authors), but I’ve made a conscious effort for the last ten years or so to read nearly any type of book.\u00a0 While I have some that are not my favorite, I find elements of several genres in most of them.<\/p>\n
For instance, pure mystery authors and aficionados may disagree with me, but I believe there’s a bit of mystery in every well-written book.\u00a0 In many books, there’s also a touch of romance — even if that is not the book’s primary purpose.\u00a0 I would suggest most young adult also has another genre element — YA fantasy, YA mystery, YA thriller, etc.<\/p>\n
In my own writing, I struggle to identify a genre.\u00a0 I tend to identify it as mainstream, but I suspect others would not choose that for it.<\/p>\n
What to YOU think?\u00a0 What is genre crossing?\u00a0 Do you seek it out or not when you’re choosing a book?<\/p>\n
Read what 20+ other writers have to say on this subject (they’ve approached it differently from me) over at the Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I confess to being a little muddled at this month’s Blog Tour topic.\u00a0 I’ve heard of gender crossing, and, certainly, cross-dressing.\u00a0 The term isn’t used for women much, but I do a lot of cross dressing.\u00a0 Men’s clothing has always been more durable — both in construction and fashion.\u00a0 I’ve …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merry-go-round-blog-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}