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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 2927818" data-attributes="member: 9037">Again I have to disagree with you. What happened in Literature in history is not true any longer. All books get put into some kind of classification today so that book sellers know where to put the books in the stores. I have never been in a bookstore that has all its fiction in one section not sorted by genre. Even some public libraries sort their book by mystery or SF our local library books stickers on the spine so you can at a glance what is a western , Sf < Mystery or romance novel.When you write your novel you have to know what kind of genre it is most like so that you can sell it to the right publishing house. It will do you no good to sell your hard boiled edective novel to Baen books unless it has an element of Sf or fanatsy in it.As a writer you have to have a working knowlege of the genre and its subtypes to be able to talk to publishers. If an editior ask what kind of fantasy story you have written you have to be ablwe to say well its sword and sorcery and you might hear well we are not publishing sword and sorcery this year its not selling can you change it.A good example of this is what a friend of mine who writes Regency Novels the market has fallen out and paranormal is in big time. When she wrote her vovel it was pure regency but she could not sell it so she took it changed the lead character to a vampire did a few changes to support that and the novel sold. She had several story ideas for more regency novels that have now been changed to be regency paranormal novels.So you see genre classifactions can change the way a writer writes and the story he tells.</blockquote>

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