Uniting Southeastern Authors discussion

Fantasy, hands down fantasy is my fave genre to read :) next to that is poetry.

I don't have a favorite genre to read. I try to read everything. There are some books I tend to stay away from.

I enjoy reading paranormal, but not limited to paranormal. The same with writing.

Lately, I've been reading mostly literary fantasy (Mythago Wood is my current read), but my top favorite genre (if it can be called a genre?) is Japanese Showa period novels -- books like Masks by Fumiko Enchi and Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata. Japanese literature from the 1920s-1960s is so inspiring to me, with its understated elegance and intense subtext.

I like to both read and write Science Fiction--the "hard" Science Fiction that relies at least partly on science and advanced technology to enhance the story. But it can also be a story set in the past or present time if SF is a part of it and it has a great storyline. Whatever I read must also have solid characters--not the cardboard stuff. Alternatively, I like good Historical Fiction, and some crime novels.

I think I read a lot like Deanna minus the gothic and fantasy part. I do read Diana Gabaldon's books and they have time travel so I guess I do read a bit of fantasy.

Ken, I have never read a science fiction book in my life and find it interesting you read and write that and still like historical fiction (but glad you do!).