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Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....in the end, i'm not a fan of labels. i think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them.
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Honestly, When You Start Talking About Genres,

Kristin Hannah
Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....in the end, i'm not a fan of labels. i think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them.
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I'm now much more excited about genre distinctions. what i still see breaking down are more the hierarchical arrangements of genres. that is, "there is literary fiction, and then there are lesser genres." i'm much more clear on the idea that literary fiction is itself a genre. it is not above other genres. it is down there in the muck with all the other genres, and it's doing the wonderful things that it does, but to give it a y-axis, to make it high and low, just seems absurd. i stand by that.
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