So what’s the book about, and what’s its genre? Ugh! That question always shuddered through my body no matter how prepared I was. I’d often stand there stuttering like an idiot. I knew what my book was about, but how to articulate it was the problem. We all deal with labels. They’re shorthand for us, and when people asked about Crown of Fire, they were asking for a label. Something they could assign it and create a narrative we could build an understanding around. Many courses advise authors to force their ideas into a category; to chop and change to fit them into a specific genre, paying particular attention to…