Haven't read Jance, but have come to the point where most of the novels I read are genre mysteries.

I read mysteries for the same reason other women read romances, and men watch porn: there's always a happy ending!

Seriously, there are an incredible number of genres to choose from in the mystery genre; my chosen range includes hard boiled detectives, especially those set in the 1930s to 1950s.

As well as historical mysteries set in ancient Greece and Rome, the Victorian era, the 1920s, or World War II.

Oh, and humorous mysteries.

As far as I'm concerned you can keep the torture porn serial killer genre, and the Agatha Christy like cozies.

Still occasionally dip into current literary fiction, but so much of that is a navel gazing depresso fest.

Would rather revert to the great 19th century novels: maybe it's time to finally read Moby Dick.

Jesus Christ, why beat this author up? "You use a lot of cliche phrases" - boy I bet she was thrilled to hear you say that. "What keeps you coming back to writing this kind of fiction?" - ie it's SO freakin putrid, how on earth can you stand it, lady?

Surely you could have interviewed her without hurling the phrase 'genre fiction' at her 42 times?

I'm not even defending the "genre" or her writing - never read the woman, and probably never will. It just felt like the whole point of this interview was to trash the writer and call her on the carpet - so sorry if that is a "cliché" phrase. How about focusing your next interview with a writer - even one you so clearly disdain - on maybe, I don't know, *writing*, in general, the process, how and why they got into it, their technique, their characters, inspiration, writer's block, etc.?