I’ve been pondering this one for a while, and decided to finally get my brain in gear and write it.



A number of years ago, before my first novel made it to print, a reader complained about the fact that my characters of a particular nationality weren’t the way characters of that nationality were portrayed in movies. I explained to her, politely, that the characters in the movies were stereotypes, and that I don’t use them.



Stereotypes are a sort of shorthand that is used… Continue