Determining Your Book's "Genre"...
Okay, you've written your latest masterpiece. It's finished. You've got your cover ready, the editor has done their work, the proofreading is finally over, you got a back cover blurb, dedication page, table of contents, etc. In short, your baby is ready too be published. You've only got one thing left to do, make it available. So you go to Smashwords, Kindle, Lulu, whoever you use to publish your precious labor of love, and you start getting asked a bunch of questions. What's the title? How many pages? The name of the author? Do you have a synopsis ready? A blurb? Then you reach "What genre is your work?" "What label do you want to put it under?" Now, if you have an agent... No not that kind, the other kind, the ones who represent books. Curse you Marvel! Anyway, if have an "literary agent" you already know what genre you were working in, because one of the key elemen...