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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:
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.
Re: confusing
Date: 2006-03-17 08:41 pm (UTC)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 But my *thoughts* on romance genre may be outdated as I rarely have read them unless there is some sort of genre element.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
Date: 2006-03-17 08:49 pm (UTC)Re: confusing
Date: 2006-03-17 08:58 pm (UTC)JD