Genre Issues: Why I haven't published anything in a while.

In 2014 I decided to try my hand at writing a book. I did, and it was terrible. Then in 2018 I tried again and wrote something not terrible but not great. Neither of these books had anything in common. In art school you are told you need to pick a style, or create a style. That way you stand out and become something marketable. The same thing applies in writing but you also have to choose a genre as well. Most people use Steven King as an example for this. He writes horror novels. If you picked up a book that just said Steven King on it you would expect a horror story inside. So if he wanted to write a children's book he would need to publish it under a pen name or else you end up with a conflict of reader expectations. Even if the book looks like a children's book and is written like a children's book, fully illustrated, and all that, the "Steven King" bit will cause readers to be angry that it's not a scary adult book. So, my dilemma is that I have like, four or five half baked…