I'm not sure if this is the subforum for this, but here goes:
Literary and Mainstream/Contemporary...how does one distinguish one from the other? When I think of literary, I think of literature, things that will be read years from now in classrooms, so on and so forth. Or flowery language and imagery.
Am I off base?
Or is it the target audience that makes that determination?
Which popular authors fall into which categories?
As I'm submitting, I find the need to tell a genre. I don't know which one my book fits into (I've been saying mainstream because I don't think of what I've written as literature).
Literary and Mainstream/Contemporary...how does one distinguish one from the other? When I think of literary, I think of literature, things that will be read years from now in classrooms, so on and so forth. Or flowery language and imagery.
Am I off base?
Or is it the target audience that makes that determination?
Which popular authors fall into which categories?
As I'm submitting, I find the need to tell a genre. I don't know which one my book fits into (I've been saying mainstream because I don't think of what I've written as literature).
