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Comment by Komal Mansoor on July 12, 2011 at 8:00am

 

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Comment by Carolyn Haley on April 13, 2011 at 4:54pm

Re: Karen's query about platform vs. genre:

I may be wrong, but I understand platform to be the author's position in the marketplace, and genre to be the book's placement in the marketplace. It's a very blurry line in between . . . but methinks you would use your platform to promote a book in whatever genre.

The difference between literary and genre work is often a matter of tone as well as content. Again, a very blurry line. Genre works tend to follow certain conventions by which they signal belonging. A simplified example is romance, wherein the story focuses primarily on the relationship between a man and a woman, the obstacles they must overcome, and how they get to a happily-ever-after (or happy-for-now) ending.

Fantasy, too, has its conventions, one of which involves magic or something so completely Not of Earth As We Know it that it can't be considered realism or science fiction. Subgenres get more specific. Often, literary works differentiate themselves by being more deeply probing into character or place than genre works, though anyone who reads a lot can surely mount an argument against that statement. I would interpret "literary fantasy" to be something different from "sword and sorcery," for instance. Literary fantasy happens to be a new term for me, but off the top of my head I'd place something like the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings into that classification.

Comment by Karen Engelsen on April 13, 2011 at 4:31pm

Hello, All!

I've got a question about the intersection of 'platform' and genre. Background:

My novel is an historical fantasy set in 780's Denmark. It is a character driven, rather than plot driven story. The 'voice' is much closer to Sigrid Unset than Marion Zimmer Bradley, although the theme is closer to 'The Mists of Avalon.' The writers closest to my style might be LeGuin or Gaiman.

I'm busily developing my platform through a blog, twitter, and facebook. So far my following tends to be in the historical reenactment, sf/f fandom, pagan, scando-american and Norwegian communities.

Several prominent fantasy writers are members of communities I belong to, and I am likely to be able to obtain references and connections to agents dealing in genre fantasy through them. I also attend the Fourth Street Fantasy Convention, and have connections to the Nielsen-Haydens there.

HOWEVER, I've been told by the literary crowd that my work walks like their kind of duck and quacks like their kind of duck, so I'm a literary fantasist.

So what does that mean?

How is the call made on the publishing end between a literary work, or a genre work? Is a genre 'platform' going to effect the placement of my work? If my work is, indeed, literary - do I need to handle building platform differently, and if so, how? How do I parse agents to find one dealing in 'Literary Fantasy?'

I find this all very confusing. Any thoughts you are willing to share would be gratefully received. -Karen-

Comment by Danica Davidson on December 29, 2010 at 7:45pm

I'm being featured on the blog Guide to Literary Agents.  I know this is a large blog, and I'm hoping it can be helpful to me.  Any advice on how I could promote it more or use it to aid me career-wise?

http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/7+Things+Ive+Learned+So+F...

Comment by Danica Davidson on December 28, 2010 at 5:28pm

I added a page about my novel writing to my website.  Does this look okay?

http://www.danicadavidson.com/Novels.html

Comment by Danica Davidson on December 16, 2010 at 5:28pm

The writing magazine Writing It Real interviewed me about my work, and I'm wondering if I might be able to use this interview to get the attention of anyone in the publishing world.

http://www.writingitreal.com/cgi-bin/get_article.pl?ID=566

Comment by Deborah Dunn on November 11, 2010 at 7:27am

In response to self-publishing...I was told by the CEO of Hay House Publishing, the largest publisher in the self-help genre, with offices in six countries, that 400,000 books are published each year, half of them are self published. Those numbers were astonishing to me. When you self-publish and are able to get decent sales numbers, often times publishers will pick you up at that point. Self-publishing doesn't make your work 'non-legit', but you are solely responsible for marketing it. There are great self-publishing companies out there. Hay House just started their own, Balboa Press www.balboapress.com Worth looking into...

Comment by Ana Sharma on November 11, 2010 at 7:15am

Thanks for the hint!

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