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Exploring the Fantastic in the Mundane with the Magical Realism Genre Jenn Lessmann An old man with giant feathered wings is discovered lying face down on the ground and the whole town comes out to see him until a carnival arrives and they lose interest nbsp For a moment Gabriel Garcia Marquez s short story A Very Old Man hellip
Many years ago I developed a desire to read more classics so I thought about trying Jane Austen s works I had never read her books but I d seen a movie or two and enjoyed the stories The only book available from the library without a month s waitlist was Persuasion After I read the book I hellip
Cozy Fantasy s Otherworldly Settings Lighthearted Escapism Offer Readers What They ve Been Craving In February 2022 when Travis Baldree self published his smashingly successful book Legends and Lattes legions of readers found themselves craving more of a genre they likely weren t even aware existed It s called Cozy Fantasy and some of its most common tropes have been hellip
Personally I think Victorian fantasies are going to be the next big thing as long as we can come up with a fitting collective term for Powers Blaylock and myself Something based on the appropriate technology of the era like steampunks perhaps K W Jeter in a 1987 letter to the science fiction magazine Locus hellip
In 2022 the Romance genre generated nearly one and a half billion dollars in sales making it the highest earning genre in fiction It was also the fastest growing fiction genre contributing to 66 percent of adult fiction growth according to statistics shared by data research group WordsRated https wordsrated com romance novel sales statistics Clearly people love to read about love The hellip
Gone are the days where evil doers stalk the night chasing down helpless victims while the law struggles to keep up Now a new hero rises one not afraid to toe the morally gray line in the name of what is right Their actions can set up the perfect adventure for readers to dig into More hellip
So you have decided to write a historical novel Were you impressed by the fifty year scope in Amor Towles A Gentleman in Moscow Or perhaps you were intrigued by the spy craft in The Rose Code by Kate Quinn Historical Fiction is expansive stretching across time periods and crossing paths with several other genres Its hellip
Ever popular the Action Adventure story is the original hero s journey a protagonist who must go on a quest to a new world and fight demons both inner and outer along the way With such flexible parameters the genre is one that often must share the spotlight whether it crosses with Fantasy and Sci Fi epics Thrillers Mysteries or hellip
Afternoon delight knocking boots dancing in the sheets the horizontal tango no matter what you want to call it we all know the lingo And for some of us that lingo and all the colorful acts it represents can play a big role in the books we write Spicy or Steamy Romance covers a range of hellip
This issue falls as autumn begins at least in the Northern Hemisphere But writers invariably set Christmas themed books amid images of pine trees laden with snowy boughs despite 50 percent of the world experiencing the height of summer on December 25 It is a statement to the cultural prevalence of this part of the globe hellip
Angie Martin As a gorgeous art form that has survived the centuries and that readers around the globe admire and revere poetry can be more like music than a storytelling genre with stanzas and word choice providing a unique cadence to access the poet s soul These rhythmic works come in a myriad of styles length hellip
Jenn Mitchell From the golden age of comics to modern day Marvel movies countless caped crusaders and super villains have kept our pulses pounding with their daring and dastardly deeds leaving us breathless and clamoring for more Traditionally Superhero fiction has been a visual medium so unsurprisingly fans often gravitate toward comics movies cartoons or games hellip
We all know what a young adult is after all we ve all been one But as it turns out we ve all been new adults as well a lesser known age range that directly follows young adulthood Over the years both young adult and new adult stages of life have sparked genres of the same names and though hellip
Remember those first stories we heard as children The Three Little Pigs Little Red Riding Hood Three Billy Goats Gruff Snow White Cinderella and so many more We could listen to them over and over again Each time we were delighted with the end The main character defeated the villain found true love and my favorite lived hellip
A Quick Genre Breakdown The easiest definition of Paranormal Women s Fiction or PWF as it s often referred to is women s fiction with paranormal elements More specifically PWF is action packed fiction under the fantasy umbrella written for and about women in the middle of their lives nbsp According to florasmusings com the genre is defined as the new hellip
According to a 2021 article in Forbes women accounted for nearly 41 percent of the gamer population in the United States and up to 45 percent in Asia which also sees 48 percent of the world s total video game revenue While reader demographics are almost impossible to evaluate the numbers simply aren t readily available a quick review hellip
Romantic Fantasy AKA Romantasy is a subgenre of Fantasy that pairs a strong romantic subplot with a Fantasy main plot The focus can skew toward the Fantasy plot with a significant minority of romantic elements or it can balance fairly evenly between the two nbsp Romantasy is often confused with its sister genre Fantasy Romance While hellip
Military SF infuses speculative technologies and interplanetary conflicts into the Military genre The result is better guns bigger battles higher stakes and a platform for social commentary Science in Military SF tends toward the more realistic side applying the same universal laws that govern tossed stones cannonballs and BFG projectiles alike This genre allows authors hellip
In her book Writing the Cozy Mystery Nancy J Cohen defines a cozy as a whodunit featuring an amateur sleuth a distinctive setting and a limited number of suspects 8230 When challenged many authors will simply respond think Murder She Wrote or Agatha Christie nbsp Simply a crime occurs within a small community of colorful hellip
Merri Maywether In a sentence Women s Fiction is written by women for women It isn t that the genre is exclusive men can and have read Women s Fiction titles However the author writes with the female reader in mind Relational sagas love stories and generational stories all make up the commercially written books that tap into hellip
All Your Favorite Stories 8230 in Space Space Opera is a popular genre among authors and readers who enjoy Sci Fi themed stories with an epic scope splashy tech romantic subplots and a sharp contrast between good and evil Where other genres of Science Fiction speculate on the intersection of technology with society Space Opera shifts its focus hellip
What do you do when the world ends Rebuild it Some people confuse Post Apocalyptic and Dystopian stories but they have distinct requirements Young Adult Dystopian is a subset of Dystopian with further specific expectations A corrupt government When it comes to YA Dystopian fiction a corrupt government or society that rose to power after a hellip
A pinch of this and a dash of that makes for sweetly satisfied readers Small Town Romance is one of those tried and true genres that withstands the test of time nbsp While they seem easy there are a lot of components that people take for granted nbsp By the end of this recipe you ll be able to tailor hellip
What makes a book an urban fantasy and not merely contemporary fantasy It comes down to genre tropes Every genre has its specific set of tropes that define it from others Readers may not be able to name the tropes or be consciously aware of them however their subconscious mind will recognize them and determine hellip
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