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

[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