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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: 2006-03-18 06:08 pm (UTC)Yes and no. The way to keep track of what your genre is doing is to go join your genre's writers' organization and watch what is being *sold* -- not what is being offered on the shelves. The shelves are two years out of date!
As I said in another comment, (at least) 99% of the time, a writer's genre is pretty easily nailed. 50% of that 99% of the time, the writer is the person making it more complicated, because s/he desperately wants to be a unique snowflake.