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algGenre 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:
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.
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Date: 2006-03-17 07:50 pm (UTC)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". :)
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Date: 2006-03-17 08:10 pm (UTC)Reminds me of William Gibson declaring cyberpunk was dead about a week and a half after Neuromancer hit the shelves. *grin*
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Date: 2006-03-17 09:06 pm (UTC)oh wait, no it won't, it will be THE NAME OF THE STORE. (it will be an exclusive boutique establishment!)
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Date: 2006-03-17 09:08 pm (UTC)Properly punctuated, of course.
Anna says, "Read this."
Anna says: READ THIS
Anna says, "Read this!"
Hmmmm.
So many options!