So You've Read MIDDLEGAME and Never Anything Else I've Written, What Should You Read Next: A Primer.

First off, congratulations on discovering me! I am a girl-shaped writer, and while I am reasonably well known within my genre at this point, girl-shaped writers who don't...

...devote a lot of time to romantic bits tend to have trouble breaking out into the major mainstream. So finding me at all is a testament to my awesome publicist, the committee of the Alex Awards, and your own incredible taste in books! Good show, reader-you!

(Also, if you're also new to my Twitter, this is not me being sarcastic. I am almost painfully sincere. I get paid to lie--professionally--and no one pays me to tweet, so lying here is beneath me.)

So you read one of my books, and presumably liked it, and now you want to read another one. This is where I ask you a question, which you cannot answer, as I am really talking to myself and an imaginary reader-construct. It is:

What Do You Enjoy Reading?

If you enjoy urban fantasy (modern setting, fantastic elements), start with ROSEMARY AND RUE or DISCOUNT ARMAGEDDON.

If you enjoy portal fantasy (Oz, Narnia, Wonderland), start with EVERY HEART A DOORWAY.

If you were one of those weird kids who used horror movies for bedtime stories and loves American folklore, try SPARROW HILL ROAD.

If you like seeing the American South treated with respect, and also corn, go with DUSK OR DARK OR DAWN OR DAY.

(Little known fact: I gave a twenty dollar bill to the first person who could recite the title of DUSK OR DARK OR DAWN OR DAY in order.)

If you like the weird wild west, try DEADLANDS: BONEYARD.

If you like zombies, try my Newsflesh series (as Mira Grant), starting with FEED.

If you enjoy genuinely horrifying medical fringe science and also butt stuff, go with PARASITE (also Mira Grant).

If you like mermaids, and don't want to like mermaids anymore, read INTO THE DROWNING DEEP (Mira again).

(I mean really, just read INTO THE DROWNING DEEP no matter what, as I desperately want to write the sequel.)

If you like procedural stories, pick up INDEXING.

If you don't like sleep, go with KINGDOM OF NEEDLE AND BONE (Mira Grant).

If you enjoy watching superheroes suffer and whine about not being allowed to have carbs, read the Velveteen books (pretty much only available via @borderlands_sf at this point).

And if you like xenomorphs and "how did this get greenlit?!" media tie-ins, go with ALIEN: ECHO (Mira Grant).

If you like graphic sexual content in the books you read, whether consensual or not, and that's what you're looking for, look elsewhere. I don't write sex; it bores me. And I don't write sexual assault ever, for any reason.

If you want diverse queer characters, found families, too much research, a weird Shakespeare fixation, and a tendency to try to sneak Counting Crows references past my editors, read basically anything. I am my brand.

(And this isn't everything. This is just everything I thought of before losing interest in my own thread and wandering off to do something else.)