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

[alg.livejournal.com]

My favorite part of "new weird" is that China has declared that it is already "over".

I think too much sub-categorizing just gives readers a headache, frankly. I'd love to see a section in a bookstore called "Anna Says Read This". :)

[anonymisty.livejournal.com]

My favorite part of "new weird" is that China has declared that it is already "over".

Reminds me of William Gibson declaring cyberpunk was dead about a week and a half after Neuromancer hit the shelves. *grin*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_artemis/]

if i ever have a bookstore, that will be a section.


oh wait, no it won't, it will be THE NAME OF THE STORE. (it will be an exclusive boutique establishment!)

[alg.livejournal.com]

I AM ALL FOR THIS PLAN.

Properly punctuated, of course.

Anna says, "Read this."

Anna says: READ THIS

Anna says, "Read this!"

Hmmmm.

So many options!