Biases, Amazon's Breakthrough Novel Award

I'm not an idiot-- Okay. So that's not entirely true. But on most occasions I can be counted on to know the date and time of a specific event. I got a notice this morning-- if you don't live in Korea, you probably got it yesterday afternoon-- the second round winners for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest were posted. This was a surprise to me because I had thought the news wouldn't come until the 28th. I set my own contest dates for the 29th, a day after the second round results from Amazon's contest would be announced. I even checked the dates before I posted. What probably happened is a little thing called biased. I don't know whether I saw it was the 23rd and forgot, or simply saw what I had expected to see. The brain is funny that way. Any author who has tried to edit their own manuscript can attest to how easy to miss errors because you see what you think you wrote, not efewth. 

This got me to think about biases.  I've always be intrigued bias. You cannot have an intelligent discussion with a truly biased individual.

Bias plays a huge role in a reader's relationship with writers.  Previously,  I wrote that I trusted readers to know what they want. Hence, I'm putting out both a horror and literary collection side by side.

But this bias thing got me to thinking. How often have I picked up a book because I know an author rights the kind of story I'm in the mood for?

If I go any deeper, this post is going to be really long so I'll just end it here by saying that I think it's much easier for a writer to define themselves as x, y, and z, than redefine themselves after years of being only z.

Here's a wiki link to a long list of biases in case your board and don't forget that thanks to my on biases the Write While You Wait Contest runs until the 29th of February.