I always love to read a writer who defies genre. They prove it can be done. I just started The Bee Keeper's Apprentice and am totally in love ... it's about this young girl who hangs out with Sherlock Holmes, writing about him, Watson and Doyle ("who didn't paint a very realistic picture of the man")... Oh my God. I love it.
Keeping Watch is also terrific, and utterly dissimilar.
It seems like it would be hard NOT to get pidgin-holed... or to play toward the idea that that's a good thing, series or no. Italio Calvino is another writer who has been successful at jumping genres (If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, eh? Eh?)
My library only has one Laurie King book, so I make them do the inter-library-loan thing and take satisfaction in making a pain-in-the-arse point.
Keeping Watch is also terrific, and utterly dissimilar.
It seems like it would be hard NOT to get pidgin-holed... or to play toward the idea that that's a good thing, series or no. Italio Calvino is another writer who has been successful at jumping genres (If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, eh? Eh?)
My library only has one Laurie King book, so I make them do the inter-library-loan thing and take satisfaction in making a pain-in-the-arse point.
From reading those three books, do you think King has a "style"?