tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904685628370887899.post5898012248611384732..comments2023-10-29T08:58:19.390-04:00Comments on The Murphey Saga: Genre Revisited~ Still SearchingJ.L. Murpheyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11782355786883006411noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904685628370887899.post-36947895037129213572012-01-20T08:40:14.571-05:002012-01-20T08:40:14.571-05:00Ha! Again, Jo, you've touched on the third rai...Ha! Again, Jo, you've touched on the third rail of publishing. To land a agent, you have to have a specific genre to match up to what they represent. Marketing departments want to be able to pigeon hole the genre for their job. So why are genre smash ups making such big splashes in the market? Diana Gabaldon's books being a great example. <br /><br />My contemporary fits the broad definition of women's fiction which concern more serious subjects than chick-lit which seems to be humorous. I think your books might be more in the women's fiction bunch. Have you looked that definition up? It's broad enough to drive the fleet into.<br /><br />My SF WIP is soft SF--no big physics ideas--and could be called a coming-of-age, fish-out-of-water, SF romance. Try selling that one. ; )<br /><br />So you can see, I'm no help on definitions.Zan Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00166450116524323462noreply@blogger.com