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humor writing?
Or do we just crack wise all the time here?
I'm just curious.
I'm curious because a recent rejection made me re-evaluate my project.
I'd been marketing it as a straight Urban Fantasy, because many Urban Fantasies also have wise-cracking, snarky MCs in them, which mine does.
But with scenes like having the MC hang out in space in an alternate dimension and having his cell phone ring -- which he answers -- or having an imp explain his absense like,
Benitog looked embarrassed. His pink hide took on an even deeper red. "Well, I was bothering this kid, see? Just having fun with her. You know, a little pea soup, a little head spinning. That was all. Nothing major. Next thing I knows they've got this priest, a good one, and he's performing an exorcism and before I can say, 'Mephistopheles,' he banishes me here!"
I'm beginning to think it's ... something else. Humor? Offbeat? Quirky?
Something.
So that brings me to my question, what defines the humor genre and when should you be soliciting that sort of agent over a straight genre agent?
Or do we just crack wise all the time here?
I'm just curious.
I'm curious because a recent rejection made me re-evaluate my project.
I'd been marketing it as a straight Urban Fantasy, because many Urban Fantasies also have wise-cracking, snarky MCs in them, which mine does.
But with scenes like having the MC hang out in space in an alternate dimension and having his cell phone ring -- which he answers -- or having an imp explain his absense like,
Benitog looked embarrassed. His pink hide took on an even deeper red. "Well, I was bothering this kid, see? Just having fun with her. You know, a little pea soup, a little head spinning. That was all. Nothing major. Next thing I knows they've got this priest, a good one, and he's performing an exorcism and before I can say, 'Mephistopheles,' he banishes me here!"
I'm beginning to think it's ... something else. Humor? Offbeat? Quirky?
Something.
So that brings me to my question, what defines the humor genre and when should you be soliciting that sort of agent over a straight genre agent?