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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.
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Date: 2006-03-17 09:13 pm (UTC)Before you hie yourself off to research the romance genre, ask yourself what the tone and sensibility of your book is! Romance is a genre that demands certain conventions, and if you don't hit those conventions, it will be a very hard sell to romance editors...
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Date: 2006-03-17 09:27 pm (UTC)I will have to do the research on the romance genre to see if I am closer to that genre and hitting those conventions than I am with the scifi. Fortunately I know quite a few romance writers so it shouldn't be that hard to figure out. And, not that I think about it, I was working with said authors when I wrote the draft. No wondering where that relationship stuff worked its way in. LOL
Here's to hoping that it will be a seller in both genres.
Peace
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Date: 2006-03-17 09:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-17 09:33 pm (UTC)Luck and timing and some talent are holy trinity of getting published... or so I am told by folks already published. I, alas, am still among the unwashed.
Time to roll up the sleeves and get my hands dirty.
Peace