the wall between genre and mainstream
12th July 2016 | for Creatives | books, artist integrity, TV series, film, novel writing, writing, genre, TV writing, creative freedom, Russell Galen |
"Today, thanks to certain pioneering authors, some great books, and some great movies and TV series, the wall between genre and mainstream fiction has become not a wall, but a river. It can be forded or bridged."
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