Daniel Abraham, author of The Dragon’s Path (US | UK | ANZ) and the upcoming The King’s Blood (US | UK), among others, has a guest post up at SF Signal today called “A Private Letter from Genre to Literature.”

Please, please, darling let us stop this. This artificial separation between us is painful, it is undignified, and it fools no one. In company, we sneer at each other and make those cold, cutting remarks. And why? You laugh at me for telling the same stories again and again. I call you boring and joyless. Is it wrong, my dear, that I hope the cruel things I say of you cut as deeply as the ones you say of me?

Check it out, and don’t miss all the related letters others are adding in the comments.