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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: 2006-04-25 08:32 pm (UTC)My question is about genre. Another author told me what I write is called woo woo. I had never heard of it, so I Googled, but came up with nothing. Have you heard of this, and if so, can you define it for me? Is it considered as derogatory in the publishing industry as it sounds to my ear?
I catagorize my ms differently depending upon who I’m querying. For one agent or publisher, I think I called it metaphysical, for another a paranormal romance (which I see now was a terrible mistake), and yet another, I categorized it as women’s fiction with a romantic paranormal twist.
If I query an agent who is looking for “quirky, unusual, eclectic,” and call my ms woo woo, a) are they going to know what I'm talking about? And b) am I going to have to change my name and start writing something different if I ever hope to be published?
(It’s too long to submit to Tor, but you might personally like it because it’s full of Tarot and astrology. Wink.)
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Date: 2006-04-25 08:35 pm (UTC)"Woo woo" is often a term for books with New Age content -- it sounds like whoever you were talking with meant New Age. There's not a big market for New Age books, unfortunately, but there are some small presses, I am sure, that publish it.
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Date: 2006-04-25 08:57 pm (UTC)