What genre is your novel? I get asked that a lot, and with Uncontrolled Flight I’m never quite sure what to say. Literary fiction, yes. But there’s a central mystery. Also procedural content about investigating plane crashes. And a love story—actually, more than one.
My novel is a mash-up of genres. For readers, that’s (hopefully) entertaining. I love to read books that are hard to categorize. But it can be tricky for publishers, marketers, and booksellers. Their lives are easier when a book fits nicely into one genre.
Lisa Brideau’s Adrift, a page-turning literary cli-fi thriller, and Robin Yeatman’s Bookworm, a black-edged and subversive satire of a romance, are novels that are similarly hard to pigeonhole.
Lisa, Robin, and I will sit down in July to discuss and read from our genre-defying fiction. And you’re invited!
Many thanks to Iron Dog Books and the Surrey International Writers’ Conference for presenting this panel.
- Wednesday, July 3, 2024
- 7:00–9:00pm; doors open at 6:30pm
- Iron Dog Books, 2671 East Hastings St., Vancouver
- Free event; please register online (space limited)
