Today I went searching on the internet for more information, trying to understand what literary genre my book fits into. The best articles I found were all from the Writer's Relief Blog, and I've listed them here for your perusal if you, like me, belong to the "I like what I like and I've never paid much attention to genre classifications" support group.
1. Here is an article breaking down literary versus mainstream fiction. I know I don't write literary fiction, but I've always wondered exactly what it is. The definition of "mainstream fiction" actually comes closer to what I'm writing than I expected.In my opinion, my current book is soft, or basically mainstream science fiction. What do you write? Have you had any trouble defining your own literary genre?
2. This post talks about the rules of genre fiction, for instance how long the manuscript for a science fiction novel should be, or what elements it should contain.
3. The clincher for me was their discussion of subgenres. Oh yes, there are genres within genres. But believe it or not I think this fact makes it easier to define my novel's category.
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