lemonhead
09-24-2010, 08:26 AM
I apologize in advance for any toes I might step on inadvertantly in my ignorance of genre.
I'm nearing the end of a project- and I'm starting to think about the whole beta and querying thing...which brings up the question of genre.
I THINK that my book will most likely fall into a general "women's fiction" catagory because it doesn't seem to fit in elsewhere...
I've looked through Amazon- looking at different books in urban (MC isn't black so that seems to exclude it from that), romance (all I can find is catagory romance- every other romantic novel is under women's fiction and this isn't a catagory romance), or any hybrid like "romantic thriller" (again, seem to fall in a catagory type romantic thriller or broad women's fiction)-----I was looking in all those because my book ties together several of those things.
My plot hangs on the romantic relationship- a man and a woman meeting, getting married and working all that marriage issues out.
But the plot is driven by outside conflict- he isn't who he says he is basically. In one of those big twists kind of crap.
But at the heart- the book is about marriage.
And race.
And inter racial marriages
And marriage.
seee....I'm having a couple issues...
But I think it's just "I'm special" syndrome and I really have a simple, women's fiction book on my hands.
Am I right?
P.S. The midnight urbanites link in my siggie is the wip- and it's from a first person view so I think that would more solidly put it women's fiction.
I'm nearing the end of a project- and I'm starting to think about the whole beta and querying thing...which brings up the question of genre.
I THINK that my book will most likely fall into a general "women's fiction" catagory because it doesn't seem to fit in elsewhere...
I've looked through Amazon- looking at different books in urban (MC isn't black so that seems to exclude it from that), romance (all I can find is catagory romance- every other romantic novel is under women's fiction and this isn't a catagory romance), or any hybrid like "romantic thriller" (again, seem to fall in a catagory type romantic thriller or broad women's fiction)-----I was looking in all those because my book ties together several of those things.
My plot hangs on the romantic relationship- a man and a woman meeting, getting married and working all that marriage issues out.
But the plot is driven by outside conflict- he isn't who he says he is basically. In one of those big twists kind of crap.
But at the heart- the book is about marriage.
And race.
And inter racial marriages
And marriage.
seee....I'm having a couple issues...
But I think it's just "I'm special" syndrome and I really have a simple, women's fiction book on my hands.
Am I right?
P.S. The midnight urbanites link in my siggie is the wip- and it's from a first person view so I think that would more solidly put it women's fiction.