Monday, November 29, 2010

Prithee, Inform Me: Genre Sales Breakdowns (Redux)

It's that time of year again, mes auteurs!

I've gotten a few suggestions via The Twitter, but since I realized many of you may not be Twitter-inclined, I've decided to open up the official vote to the blog. I'll do four genres this week (including Friday, as Ms. Ombreviations will be away on vacation) and (potentially!) another four next week, so vote while the voting's good.



As always, if your genre of choice isn't represented in the poll, please mention it in the comments!

19 comments:

  1. Thanks for doing this Eric! Can you also speak generally about crossovers? What constitutes a crossover and to what extent might sales and marketing be handled differently?

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  2. What are mash-ups? And honestly, I want to know about all of them!

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  3. This is a helpful annual post. I'd like to know more about inspirational/Christian fiction, but more specifically, those books directed toward the African-American community. That might be tough, though, since that's a pretty segmented group of books, most across ABA publishers and likely swallowed up by other, broader genres.

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  4. I'd love to know about urban fantasy in particular, but I suspect the available data wouldn't split that out.

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  5. Urban fantasy would interest me most, too, though I see doubts as to possibility have already been voiced.
    Thanks though! Any genre will be interesting.

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  6. Love to hear more about kid's/YA even though that isn't really your thing. Great to have the marketing perspective.

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  7. I clicked "other" because I couldn't choose more than one. Women's fic, SF/F, YA. Put a mark under each of those for me, please. Thanks. :)

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  8. Historical here, too. The research is so much fun! :)

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  9. Historical fiction. General-market, like Bernard Cornwell or Elizabeth Chadwick (the British one, not the American romance writer). It keeps getting classed as literature, and some of it is, but surely it should at least have a category?

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  10. I voted for one of them, but I'd really like to see literary fiction, commercial fiction, mystery/thriller and YA.

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  11. Historical fiction.

    I'm so glad to see there are others out there :)

    Christi Corbett

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  12. What about memoir? There are several bestsellers right now (like EAT, PRAY, LOVE and THE GLASS HOUSE).

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