Hi everyone,
I lurk around here fairly often - great stuff on this board!
Unfortunately, I need to bug all of you about this genre topic. Instead of telling my entire book's story, I'll sum it up like this: My novel most closely resembles the story in the movie "Ghost", if I had to find an example. Obviously, it's not exactly like "Ghost" - in fact, I never even considered it until I was done with the book and my husband asked what I ended up with. His response? "Oh, it's like Ghost and the Six Sense, all tied up in one."
Major duh moment for me. I never even thought about it, I just told my story.
I have strong romantic themes between my characters. Very strong. But it's ultimately a ghost story, involving two clairaudient/voyant VIP characters, and there's this love story that has ended on the earthly realm, but continues when my MC is a ghost. He loves his wife actively, and she loves him back though she knows he is dead and they're no longer "together". (A lot like Ghost - she doesn't know he's there, he's always around)
She later finds love with a living man; they have a HEA once the conflicts are resolved. My MC decides his HEA is with his daughter, also deceased, waiting in Heaven, once the conflicts are resolved.
I billed my book as a "paranormal romance" (see below - and I know about the word count; currently addressing it), but another AW member pointed out that HEA doesn't count between a parent and child. I'm fine with that, I just can't decide what genre the book is - how to classify it.
Any ideas? I did read the stickies on genres, but I'm still not seeing my genre clearly.
Thanks in advance,
I lurk around here fairly often - great stuff on this board!
Unfortunately, I need to bug all of you about this genre topic. Instead of telling my entire book's story, I'll sum it up like this: My novel most closely resembles the story in the movie "Ghost", if I had to find an example. Obviously, it's not exactly like "Ghost" - in fact, I never even considered it until I was done with the book and my husband asked what I ended up with. His response? "Oh, it's like Ghost and the Six Sense, all tied up in one."
Major duh moment for me. I never even thought about it, I just told my story.
I have strong romantic themes between my characters. Very strong. But it's ultimately a ghost story, involving two clairaudient/voyant VIP characters, and there's this love story that has ended on the earthly realm, but continues when my MC is a ghost. He loves his wife actively, and she loves him back though she knows he is dead and they're no longer "together". (A lot like Ghost - she doesn't know he's there, he's always around)
She later finds love with a living man; they have a HEA once the conflicts are resolved. My MC decides his HEA is with his daughter, also deceased, waiting in Heaven, once the conflicts are resolved.
I billed my book as a "paranormal romance" (see below - and I know about the word count; currently addressing it), but another AW member pointed out that HEA doesn't count between a parent and child. I'm fine with that, I just can't decide what genre the book is - how to classify it.
Any ideas? I did read the stickies on genres, but I'm still not seeing my genre clearly.
Thanks in advance,