| Re: "So what genre are you writing in?"
Hello all,
I'm new here, so apologies if I am riding roughshod over any accepted boundaries of behaviour by jumping straight in with my ill-thought out opinions!
This appears to be a real problem for anyone who is not writing straight genre fiction. I don't know if anyone else would agree, but it seems to me that it is actually quite hard to convince potential agents etc to look much beyond the genre in situations when some plart of the plot or story has clear links to a genre. The following conversation is, alas, not one that appears to be commonplace:-
"We don't do horror".
"Well, it's not really horror. It's got supernatural stuff in it, but really it's about the interplay between the characters. It's quite a human read. With occasional monsters."
"Really? OK then! Send it over and stand by for instant global recognition......"
Would it be better just to refer to a manuscript as "literary" or "populist" (or whatever), or would this give rise to a whole different set of problems?
(Strokes beard in reflective manner).
Regards,
Peter |