I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
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I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.
Jean M. Auel
My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.
Jean M. Auel
And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.
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From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.
Jean M. Auel
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
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