Have you ever considered that we often travel through time without much thought? I recently chatted (using IM) with a fellow blogger. She said that she had to go, it was nearly 6 AM and she had to get go to work. Whoa, says I, “its 3 PM the previous day where I am”. There was [...]
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I’ve said it many times, I do not write formula Romance novels, any more. I have written a very few erotic, and romance short stories. And here I am talking about the Romance genre.
Because “romance” sells, that sub-genre is a great tag to add to any other genre as a selling come-on. That’s an injustice to [...]
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Sci Fi and fantasy are two genres that lend themselves to many facets, and sub-genres.
James Patterson writes the Maximum Ride series about mutated children who can fly among other things. I’ve read one and did enjoy it, but I’m dedicated to the Alex Cross series and don’t often go astray. The same is true of Dean Koontz Odd [...]
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Mystery subgenres abound. There is the cozy, the soft boiled, the hardboiled, noir, romantic suspense, gothic mysteries, police procedurals, private eye novels and thrillers. I’m sure that someone will write to me and tell me I’ve left out a few. If you just want the definitions of this stuff, with a couple of examples of [...]
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My first book has been out about two months. What is my genre? Lost In The Mist, is listed as a Paranormal Romance and I guess that’s true. Though I’ve always sworn with vigor that I do not write romance. Well, romance lives` if the lives of the people in the story are not in a monastery, [...]
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This is a question that I used to ask myself a lot, however, that was then and the answer is now. What is horror? Horror; rather, true horror is something that makes you feel the cool chill of death reverberate through your body. True Horror is something that offends you in such a way that [...]
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I think we all know that we do look at, and search on genre when we’re looking for books to read, even in the library.
So genre is important. But what is it? How are all the subgenres different? How do the subgenres change the main focus of the book? Do you really know what to look [...]
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