I’m a glutton.  I love books.  I love different kinds of books.  Lots of different kinds.  I love different genres.  Within romance, I love different subgenres. 

I get bored reading the same genre, the same way I get bored writing the same genre.  I bounce around a lot.  Yeah, I go on kicks where all I want for a while is historicals, or mysteries, or fantasy.  I go on kicks where I don’t read romance at all for a month or so, because I’m gorging on PBW or Anne Bishop. Then I’ll go a few months where all I want to read is paranormal, or romantic suspense.  I’ve been on a huge romantic suspense binge lately.  Lots of Tara Janzen.  And I do mean lots.

I just plain and simple love to read.  But I have to have variety.  Even my favorite-est of faves, like SL Viehl in all her many personas, isn’t going to satisfy my cravings.  She could put out a book a week and after a while, I’d need some variety.  Not because her stories aren’t wonderful… they are and anybody who knows me will probably tell you that I’m almost slavishly devoted to PBW/Lynn Viehl/SL Viehl/Jessica Hall/Gena Hale.  But I can’t read her all the time and nor do I want to. 

She has a writing style that is distinctly her own~yes, I love it.  But I also love strawberries and if I ate nothing but strawberries, after a while, I’d get seriously bored with them.

So I get confused when I read a comment that somebody has been ruined for all other authors.  I see it in reference to several authors who have books that I love.  Yes, I love them.  Excellent books, excellent stories.

But could I read nothing but that indefinitely? 

No.  Frankly, no author that I have ever read appeals to me that I’d forsake all other authors for them.  And I’ve read some seriously excellent books. 

As I’ve said before, very often, I get bored easily.  Even with things I love.  If I don’t get some variety in, I would get very, very bored.  I don’t tolerate bored well.

Fortunately, there are enough wonderful authors out there that this isn’t going to be an issue.  :o>