Guest Post: Chris Rakunas - Be Faithful to Yourself
Yesterday was a very important day for me. My wife and I celebrated our one year anniversary yesterday. Anniversaries are typically a day where you celebrate fidelity, staying together, and renew your vow to stay together in the future. When it comes to writing, however, I have not been that faithful to my genre. Sometimes writers like to write the same type of book over and over – always YA books, always non-fiction, or always thrillers. There is some logic behind it since it is easier to develop the fifth like-styled book than it is the first because you have experience with it. But for me, I have found that I have so many different stories to tell that I cannot stay within one genre. My first book, Tears for the Mountain , is a non-fiction about a medical mission trip to Haiti following the deadly earthquake there. The story follows the delivery of 20,000 pounds of medical supplies to hospitals damaged in the eart...