Genre

[alg]

Genre as a marketing category!
Publishers and editors do not think about genre the same way authors do. Here's an explanation.



... Now I write an ode to spinach:

spinach,
you
are green
and
i wish i had more
of you than
what I ate
(yum yum yum)
at five in the morning,
dawn
creeping
up
you are
(my sunshine and)
the perfect delivery method
for salt and
garlic.

Comments

Re: confusing

[jodi-davis.livejournal.com]

Sorry - I didn't mean leave out completely - I just meant if there are different genre elements... leaving out mention of that element.

1. Yes - it has actual science in it. Space Elevators, Quantom Processors, a molecule that can be turned into any other molecule, flying cars...

2. Some of the readers are hard, some are fant/sf readers, some are romance (They made me read Gabaldon - damn them!)

3. Hummm, I do care. Not enough to be a deal breaker, but I do care. And I think it wouldn't make a good romance offering because it would be too *hard* (in both ways). But my *thoughts* on romance genre may be outdated as I rarely have read them unless there is some sort of genre element.

JD

Re: confusing

[alg.livejournal.com]

Yes, we often leave the myriad subgenres out when discussing books. It's much easier on the sales force and the booksellers if we tell them, "This is a romance novel set in the future," than if we tell them, "This book has a mystery plot and a huge romance plot, and is set in the future, and has a lot of sf elements."

Re: confusing

[jodi-davis.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

JD