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Zoom in on a specific literary genre, offering market insights, success stories, and strategies tailored to genre-specific writing. Understand the nuances and trends that define and drive different literary categories.

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Women Leading GameLit: Female Authors Transform the Genre

Understanding the Gaming and GameLit Landscape 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...

Romantic Fantasy vs Fantasy Romance: Key Genre Differences

Romantic Fantasy and Fantasy Romance: An Overview 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...

Military Sci-Fi: Writing Realistic Future Conflicts

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...

Cozy Mystery Writing Tips for Indie Authors

Understanding the Cozy Mystery Genre 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 ... ” When challenged, many authors will simply respond, think Murder She Wrote or Agatha Christie. Simply, a...

Understanding Women's Fiction: Genre Insights for Authors

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...

Space Opera Writing for Indie Sci-Fi Authors

All Your Favorite Stories...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...

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