A recent issue of “Writer’s Digest” magazine has in it a fabulous graphic showing the many genres and sub-genres of what they call ‘pop fiction.’ Basically, it is what I have come to understand as ‘genre fiction’ as opposed to commercial or literary fiction.
Mystery/Crime
Romance
Sci Fi /Fantasy
Horror
Thriller/Suspense
You know… the good stuff. I have to admit that I do not read mystery/crime at all. I get that on the news.
An interesting thing to note about the graphic tree they have in the magazine, is that a lot of the sub-genres seem to fit on multiple tree branches. It is often quite difficult to figure out what genre I am writing in.
Sun, Feb 1, 2009
Fantasy Genre