Jack of All Genres
I want to publish someday. That has always been a dream of mine, and I'm making very slow progress towards that goal. But I have one problem I'm not sure how to overcome. I look at the majority of authors and their one-genre career, and my whole body revolts against the idea. The authors who write only romance, or only mystery, or even only fantasy. Or the authors who only ever have one idea. And I get it. You find your audience, you stick to what they know you for, you have a loyal audience.
But I'm not for that kind of life. I have written dimension-hopping scifi and generation ship/virtual reality scifi and galaxy-spanning adventure scifi. I have written chosen one epic fantasy and Chinese-inspired romantic portal fantasy and subtle werewolf urban fantasy and kitchen sink urban fantasy and horror urban fantasy. Two of that last one, actually.
Because I've written in so many different genres, and don't plan on stopping my genre experimentation, I worry that I won't find an agent, or a publisher, or an audience. My breadth is too wide, there's not one audience that would want to read everything. Not only that, but how can I pick which genre I want to start in? What genre best represents what I want my career to be? What do I focus on long enough to get through the door?
A conundrum to contemplate.