I know an author who never changed her niche of crime novels and won many prizes, had lots of audio deals, etc. She was single-minded and a book machine, sometimes two a year. It would have choked me to keep to one lane. I've published mysteries, a thriller, literary novels, short story collections, essay collections, a historical novel, a memoir and more, following my Muse. It meant not being easily classifiable by publicists or book sellers, but I couldn't have done it differently.
I know an author who never changed her niche of crime novels and won many prizes, had lots of audio deals, etc. She was single-minded and a book machine, sometimes two a year. It would have choked me to keep to one lane. I've published mysteries, a thriller, literary novels, short story collections, essay collections, a historical novel, a memoir and more, following my Muse. It meant not being easily classifiable by publicists or book sellers, but I couldn't have done it differently.