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Genre question
omahaironman:
Maybe this is the least of what my concens should be, but I'm having genre issues with a story I'm writing. I've got the whole story arc planned out. I have chapter outlines. I have character bios. Even have the first hundred pages of manuscript typed out. But I can't nail down a definitve genre to market it as. (If "market" isn't, at this point, a presumptuous label.) Calling it a hitman/gumshoe/paranormal/revenge story is kind of a hard sell, I would think.
If anyone wants to hear enough of a synopsis to help me nail down a genre, it'd be much appreciated.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Pretty much any paranormal element makes it count as paranormal, I think.
omahaironman:
That was my first thought. My only real hesitancy in dubbing it paranormal is that while I'm certain I want more than one story for the charaters (well, some of them, at any rate), I'm not so sure that I want them to deal with that type of thing every story. It's not a perfect analogy, but imagine an Elvis Cole novel where just once, instead of a kidnapping he has to deal with some voodoo curse placed on him by a former antagonist. You want to keep reading about Elvis Cole, just not in some Scooby-Doo freak of the week kind of situation.
I guess that's really my main concern. It's not set in a Dresdenverse kind of world. It's pretty much "our" world, that just happened to have something from the spooky side come for a visit and wreak a little havok.
LizW65:
Just from your brief descriptions, it sounds as though "Urban Fantasy" should cover it.
omahaironman:
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Just from your brief descriptions, it sounds as though "Urban Fantasy" should cover it.
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Not a bad choice. What I keep (possibly overly) worrying about, is that future stories with the characters might have little to nothing to do with the paranormal. Am I making much ado about nothing, do you think?
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