Am I the only one struggling as I find myself asking this question; how do I categorize my story into the appropriate genres?
Well I did my research for it and so I'll share what I understood with you... First you need to understand that categorizing is important for the following reasons; 1. It helps you find the appropriate agent who is into the type of story you wrote 2. It helps the literary agent understand your story through your query 3. It helps you decide your target audience If you mess this part up then it can be bad. Consider this for example; if you labelled your story as horror without much thought but to your readers it wasn't really scary then it would obviously be rejected by literary agents who were actually looking for something spooky. Get what I mean? So basically there are a few steps of categorizing your story that I'll talk about below. If you decide the genre of your story by looking at the points below then your query letter would probably say, My novel XYZ is a 1(f/n.f), 2(m.g/y.a/adult) of a 3(SciFi/lit/F/H), 4(*) genre. Personally my own stories are usually genre bending or multi-genre and I feel that failing to classify my last novel was one of the reasons I failed to get it published. I've done a better job now so if you have the same problem this blog might be helpful.
In the end my own new story ended up something like; a New Adult (fantasy) fiction with Gothic elements and slight magical realism. So yeah, hope this helped. Wish me luck for my new book and check out my eBook for sale on Kindle and Nook! Also follow me for more updates and help on writing. Feel free to ask anything writing related in the comments.
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