Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Genrification

It's been awhile since I've run a poll, and since 1.) I've noticed several new followers as of late, and 2.) I'm gearing up for another round of genre-specific sales smackdowns, I figured I'd offer you, gentle readers, the following poll:



Have at it!

27 comments:

  1. Eric,
    I am an "other"...historical fiction.

    Christi Corbett
    PS. Thanks again for the opportunity to be a guest host of this site on December 23rd. Today, the star of that post is guest hosting at my own site.

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  2. Suburban Noir meets Psychological Suspense.

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  3. Awesome! The genre-specific sales series was actually what first brought me here last year. Glad you're doing it again soon.
    Minor note: I clicked on SF/F because that's what I mainly write, but I also write Women's Fiction. It wouldn't allow me to choose more than one, so just an FYI.

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  4. I'm an other too, Young Adult Fantasy of the secondary world variety.

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  5. I am also a historical fiction other, but with an erotic twist. Things like what if Churchill had lost the war, and been sexually attracted to Hitler.

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  6. I tried to vote but it said I couldn't connect to the server. I write YA/Children's.

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  7. By "Other" I mean historical fiction...

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  8. Thank you for putting women's fic and chick lit together so I didn't have to choose or once again debate with myself whether "chick lit" is derogatory or not...

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  9. Soliciting a contemporary fantasy, writing a classic fantasy, have an epic fantasy on deck.

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  10. I don't know what genre it is. I've got a manuscript about love, art school, vampires, and the Holocaust. You have to write what you know.

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  11. It wouldn't allow me to choose more than one, so just an FYI.

    Work from home India

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  12. When you do genre sales, I would love, love, love to see Children's broken down by genre (MG SF, MG Fantasy, etc).

    Thanks!!

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  13. Mine's actually historical romantic suspense, but I just stuck it under romance. Looks like your audience is mostly Children/YA, and SFF, likely because they followed you here from Nathan's blog, and Nathan doesn't rep romance, so most of us romance folks follow other blogs. But I like Nathan's for the industry info, same as this one. I mostly lurk.

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  14. I'm writing science fiction. My co-author and I are on book 3 of a planned trilogy and we're having a great time with it. Now if we can only get a publisher interested.....

    Deb
    www.otharia.com

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  15. The draft I'm writing is mainstream fiction. The novel I'm editing is Christian women's fiction (but not a romance).

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  16. Unfortunately the poll only lets us choose one option. What about those of us writing in sf, mystery, and YA?

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  17. @maryles: Yes, but the realities of marketing are that you also have to choose a category...

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  18. I wasn't sure what a book with superheroes in it would fall under so I went with "Other." I probably would have picked "Horror" or "Adventure" if they'd been available, though.

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  19. @jdkaope ummmm....historical fiction with an erotic twist? that sounds AWESOME. It reminds me of hetalia, which is this japanese anime reimagining WWII countries as cute little men with crushes on each other. but yeah....

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  20. My "other" is literary Gothic. Sort of a modern "Wuthering Heights".

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  21. I'm an other: historical fiction, 6th century CE in Italy.

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  22. I selected fantasy/sci-fi, but I write YA fantasy, some of it contemporary, and some of it twisted retellings of old fairy tales.

    I agree with commenter Susan Quinn, who begged for a full genre breakdown of sales in YA and MG novels--historical, romance, fantasy, etc. Thanks!

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  23. I'm an "other" - but I want commercial fiction or, ideally, humor that is fiction. Is there such a beast? I'm writing one, but darned if it ain't difficult to find humor as a category that's not non-fiction.

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  24. Another "other" here. Literary nonfiction.

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  25. 'Other' - paranormal romance/urban fantasy.

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  26. Wow! Lots of YA. I guess the Twilight craze is still being chased (first it was Harry Potter...). That seems to be the only genre that lights up that way, although Dan Brown seems to do a pretty good job too!

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