PONDERING: When is a Trope not a Trope?

Tweet It’s been a puzzle for a while – when does a trope turn into one person’s intellectual property? A judgment in Texas has recently come closer to the answer. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a “trope” is something that is common to many...

Do you want an author to try something new?

Tweet I’ve learned a few new things in the last year. To break some rules. One of them being “You should pick a genre and stick with it.” I always thought this one was right, that the poor dear reader would get confused. Not a bit of it. When I started writing...