It was a lot of fun :) As for finding their genre:
Martin Harrison always knew what his would be (he's a poet); Jack Hibberd writes in just about every genre, so he didn't have to choose at all; and Max Barry, apparently, wrote at least half a dozen novels before he had any idea what genre he was writing in. Now, I think, he can at least identify a book's genre after the fact, but his books are still scattered between general fiction, young adult, and science fiction, and he said he tends to view genre more as a marketing or organisational tool than as something organic or particularly germane to the writing process (particularly since his books tend to straddle genre rather than falling neatly into any one in particular).
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Martin Harrison always knew what his would be (he's a poet); Jack Hibberd writes in just about every genre, so he didn't have to choose at all; and Max Barry, apparently, wrote at least half a dozen novels before he had any idea what genre he was writing in. Now, I think, he can at least identify a book's genre after the fact, but his books are still scattered between general fiction, young adult, and science fiction, and he said he tends to view genre more as a marketing or organisational tool than as something organic or particularly germane to the writing process (particularly since his books tend to straddle genre rather than falling neatly into any one in particular).