I don’t know who the audience is for my books. I’m writing about love, but does that make it Romance? I’ve included intimacy, but does that make it Erotic Romance? It’s about an ever-expanding family, but does that make it Family Life Fiction? It’s about teens, but does that make it Young Adult? The characters are spiritual; does that make it Christian Romance? Categorizing is hard.

Maybe I don’t need to worry about it. Yes, I have to attach genres on the various book seller’s websites. And as my tagline says, Contemporary Love Stories, which is why I put them under Fiction/Romance/Contemporary. What people think of it from there is up to them.

Life is complicated enough, and we’re all human. We succeed, we make mistakes, we love, we hurt. But we always grow. That growth is what I’m trying to capture and convey with these characters. So what category would that be? Probably Coming of Age, but not in the traditional context. We will be coming-of-age until we die. At least, I hope so. I’m not the same person I was four decades ago. Not even two decades ago. Not even last year.

I would propose to make a Fiction category of Romantic and Passionate Life. Where our characters are always pursuing the exemplary. To make themselves better, and in turn, making us better.