Sept 7 question abridged: What is the hardest genre to write? Why? Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG.

Science-Fiction writer (our blog father) Alex J. Cavanaugh’s awesome co-hosts for the September 7 posting of the IWSG are Kim Lajevardi, Cathrina Constantine, Natalie Aguirre, Olga Godim, Michelle Wallace, and Louise – Fundy Blue!

My answer for hardest genre: Humor

Humor sections in bookstores fascinate me. Humor is subjective, but in the indie bookstores I’ve worked at your book has to be hands down LMFAO for the manager to shelve your auto-bio in Humor. That’s what it takes for the book to bypass Biography (the one section organized alpha by subject opposed to alpha by author) Travel Adventure, and Self-Help.

I labor to infuse humor in my dialogue. An ode to the snarky one-offs of Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade’s fast ball retorts.

“You were impossible. Drunk and depressed. Pushing yourself too hard.”

“You’d think you’d be used to women drunk and depressed around you.”

I’ll keep trying. Happy IWSG Day!