Keep Calm...

 

At least, according to the I Write Like website, which analysed my word choice and writing style, and compared it to those of famous writers.

 

Since the text analysed was Dream a Little Dream - a women's fiction romance about weddings, retro style, and making your own way in the world, I'm not sure quite how accurate we can take this as being... After all, there isn't a single mention of Fish Men in the whole book.

 

But more interestingly, other books provided startlingly different results.

 

An A to Z of Love, a romance about family, and scandal, and fish, is apparently more like Dan Brown. (Not particularly flattering...)

 

Sea Fever, on the other hand, which is actually about Fish Men, in a way - a YA paranormal murder mystery featuring Selkies - is compared to Stephen King.

 

It's a shame that the site doesn't give more information about how these decisions are calibrated. I tested it with different text from the same books, in different orders, but the results were consistent.

 

At the very least, I suppose it shows that each book has its own style, and tone, as befits the story it is telling. And I'm happy with that. Although, I do wonder if all of H P Lovecraft's books would actually score the author himself on comparison...