It also includes interviews with some of horror's top stars, such as Stephen King. Mort spoke with us about the basics that every horror writer must know, the trends in the industry and how to get started in the world of comics. I cannot remember a time when horror did not speak to me, nor a time when I wasn't writing horror. All the big houses have shut down their horror lines. Now that that is said, virtually every fiction publisher is still publishing horror, even if a book does not have horror marked on the spine.
Labels are just that and nothing more.
Hey, Ed Gorman's masterful western novel, Trouble Man , is called historical novel by Leisure because western isn't the easiest sell these days. Any group, any associate, any pal, anything that will help you learn and that will help you learn is important. Once upon a time I'd have had a lengthy, gassy answer to this. Now, more and more, I'm convinced that genre is a way for a publisher to put a tag on a spine so that a minimum wager can grab a book and put it on the right shelf in the store. Realize it's a beautiful and horrible world we inhabit, and you've got sensory units to help you take in all of it, and that you, if you are a writer, must be aware of and thankful for all of it.