Is Emotional-Techno-Fiction a branch or type of Postmodernism?

PRLog (Press Release) – Dec 13, 2007 – Tyler: John, your works have many intertextual references. For example, a character in one book may be described as the author of another book. Is emotional-techno fiction a branch or type of postmodernism because of that intertextual play, or do you see it as a separate genre?

John: I love the way that we humans, are now well developed enough to have a name for everything, this ism, post and pre that era and so on, the real kick for me was being able to create a loop, somewhere in the work there is an entry point to join of this loop. I love the term “intertextual.” I got this from you, in an email and yes, as a reader absorbing text, the satisfaction of finding Metofeaz to be real is great. For a storyteller having a rhetoric this vast in terms of the options and possibilities available is I think a huge responsibility to have and to handle with the thought of the audience’s sensibility and so on. As far as a genre is concerned, I would love one, but Wikipedia says someone else has to suggest it for you.

Tyler: Why did you choose to make your main character, John Lazoo, illiterate? Are you making a statement or playing a game with the concept of literature here?

John: Playing the game to an extent, I suppose; life to me is much like that, you’re a player, a spectator or a commentator. Naturally a player wants to have some fun, but also as a writer, I feel like I am illiterate; I have a very wise, intelligent and patient man who edits my work. I have people like you and Heather who help me shape all the nonsense I think will market the work, so Lazoo is who I am, in that you only refer to someone as an illiterate, when they are required to read. In this case, I want a new life as a writer; to do this, I am required somehow to compete in a game where the players are educated, articulate, with words that mean, plenty.

Tyler: While emotional-techno fiction is a fascinating name for a genre, booksellers typically need to know where to put the book on the shelf. What standard genre—fantasy, romance, horror, literary—would you use to classify your books for placement on bookstore shelves?

John: I would love for the publisher to do that, but the books range from Young Adult, to Romance and will end up Fantasy, I hope.

Tyler: John, what makes you specifically qualified to write emotional-techno fiction? Is it your own creation, or do you know of other writers also creating this genre?

John: Now, that you qualify etfiction, by asking me if I am qualified to write it, in case there may be other great writers penning its era of creation, makes me go WOW. No but seriously, I guess it is because emotional-techno-fiction was as much about setting guidelines and manufacturing synthetic feelings through words, all of which were what I needed to do as a person going through changes and wanting a better life, so etfiction to me now is a way of life and hopefully a way of making a living.