As some of you may have noticed, we have a cool new location. Everyone needs to put their hands together for Cynthia and her gifted husband, Nick. I’m really tickled that we’ve made the move. But you may want to update your bookmarks and links to us. We’re at http://www.thebradfordbunch.com now.

And lucky me, I get to make the first post! I’ll have to make it a good one.

Well, first I need to announce a winner. Last week y’all gave me some title help. I’m happy to report that my editor now has a list of the best ones I could think of, and I’m waiting to hear what she decides. That’ll be a while, but as soon as I know, I’ll tell you guys which one tickled her fancy.

Anyhow, I promised someone a copy of Boundless and the lucky winner this time is Catslady. Make sure you email me at ann.aguirre @ gmail.com within the next two weeks. Oh, and remove the extra spaces, of course.

Speaking of contests, I have a couple of them running right now, here and here. Make sure you stop by those before Monday, October 15th at high noon. That’s when they’ll wrap up.

And that’s it for contests… so moving on…

Every now and then, I get questions from readers. So today I’m going to answer one here. The other day, someone asked me, “Is there a kind of book you’d like to write and haven’t yet?”

The short version of that answer would have to be, “No.” But you know I’m going to give you more than that, right?

See, I write genre fiction, and I’m proud of that. I have no interest in doing anything else. Now sometimes my books do somewhat blur the boundaries. I’ll throw in magic, mystery, and a touch of romance. I did exactly that in my Corine Solomon stories.

Why? Because those are my favorite genres. It’s like those Amazon ads where they’re trying to get you to buy two books: Better Together! I just take a step further and put it all in the same book.

In the past, editors wouldn’t have looked twice at my ideas. Too much romance in my sci-fi series, starring Sirantha Jax. Or too much sci-fi in my romance, depending on how you look at it. I tried to interweave it so thoroughly that you wouldn’t have a book without the setting or the relationship. And I really think it works.

Thank goodness times have changed.

But it’s important for romance readers to know I can be trusted, though. I’m a believer in the happy ending. I wouldn’t write a series, only to kill off the hero or heroine. No matter what I put them through along the way, at the end of the ride, they’ll be safe, happy, and together. That’s a promise.

How do you guys feel about cross-genre books?