Though fantasy is my first love, I write anything from children's picture books to erotic short stories. I believe that genres are crippling literature. A story takes on what ever form it needs. I do not set out to write a fantasy or a romance. Rather, I write the story as is demands to be written and then try to fit it into a category only for convenience sake. Needless to say, some of my stories fall through the genre cracks. So I have created my own genre: Between the Cracks Fiction. I get excited about stories that push the boundaries of current labels, fiction that creates new labels. My favorite authors accomplish this feat. Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage, is the best fantasy novel that I have ever read, but don't look for it in the fantasy section of your book store. Likewise, Guy Gavriel Kay's fantasy novel Tigana has little magic, no elves, space ships or anything otherworldly. Still, it is a rip-roaring epic that delights in thwarting the readers' expectations.

"Divine Sympathies" now available in the Twist of Fate Anthology from Eternal Press. "Poor Man's Strawberry" now available from Twisted Tongue Magazine.

In 2008 Double Dragon Publishing will produce my novella "Angel Venom" and my novel "Caul, Shroud and Veil." Look for details on all these publications on my website at www.kimmcdougall.com

I also write children's fiction under pen-name Kim Chatel. Check out my children's/YA selection at www.kimchatel.com.

Between the Cracks Fiction

Kim Chatel
Children's and YA fiction.

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